BioWatch data, including some locations of bioweapons detectors, was left outside of secure government firewalls for years, records show. Officials confirmed they don’t know if hackers every gained access to it.
could not be counted on to detect an attack and said BioWatch generated 149 false alarms from 2003 through 2014.
BioWatch officials pushed back. Michael Walter, the program’s manager, said in a conference call with other Homeland Security officials that information about the location of the network’s air samplers would not undermine its effectiveness since it was designed to detect a massive biological warfare attack. The samplers are in plain sight, he said, according to a recording of the call made by Jackson and reviewed by The Times.
The audit turned up 41 vulnerabilities, and a scan detected a possible attempt by a hacker to access the portal. The auditing team was unable to validate the scan’s finding, and the team recommended that the contractor overseeing the site investigate. It is unclear whether that was done. The complaint continued: “To this date, DHS will never know the harm that has resulted from this because there is no intrusion detection capability.”
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