Surfing For Porn...A Private Affaire....Or A Very Public Outrage.

If you thought that consulting adults surfing the web for details of escorts and hookers was their own business and should be treated as a private matter...

If you think that adults accessing porn sites was the right of employees working for the government and was also a private matter.. 

                                      WELL THINK AGAIN

Has anybody at TfL investigated the fact that adult websites are the perfect place to embed malicious software and malware viruses. Most adult contact and porn sites contain high definition images and video that contain complex coding, the perfect place to hide small viruses that can compromise whole systems, leaving them wide open to attack from Hackers, criminal gangs and even foreign government covert teams. 

First we had a top level employee of TfL, trolling the Internets adult sites in search of female escorts, who made contact with a £140 an hour Hooker. 

(Has anyone checked whether he used the TfL system in Windsor House?)

Just days later, we hear that this is also a regular activity of staff on computers in the Houses of Parliament.

I'm sure those in the highest positions are investigating the possible security breaches of top level computer networks, but this is certainly not a private matter. As tax payers we are all entitled to know what government employees do in the time we pay for.  

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more ludicrous, this article from the Daily Mail (one of the only three media outlets to carry the Hendy Story last week)

Pentagon orders missile defence staff to stop watching porn on office computers

Workers at the Missile Defence Agency were caught downloading x-rated material on office computers and sharing them with each other via the internal network

Fears raised that criminals or spies may have hacked agency's mainframe

Porn sites provide perfect cover for hackers to smuggle spying software past sophisticated firewalls

MDA is responsible for developing, fielding and upgrading the nation’s ground-and sea-based missile defense programs

Not the job in hand: The Missile Defence Agency workers should have been developing rockets like this SM-3 rather than looking at pornography

The Pentagon has ordered staff at its top-secret missile defence unit to stop watching porn and concentrate on the job in hand.

Military chiefs are furious that workers at the Missile Defence Agency have been wasting valuable hours surfing the web for smut rather than developing state-of-the-art weaponry.

The violation came to light after fears were raised that viruses may have already been smuggled into the department's mainframe through x-rated sites.

An internal probe then found that some staff had been downloading adult material on office computers and sharing them with each other via the internal network.

It constitutes a massive security risk to one of America's most secretive agencies because porn sites provide perfect cover for criminals and foreign spies to sneak snooping software past even the most sophisticated of firewalls.

In a bid to curb the abuse, the agency's executive director sent a stern memo warning staff that 'appropriate disciplinary action' would be dished out to anyone caught surfing the net for smut.

'There have been instances of employees and contractors accessing websites, or transmitting messages, containing pornographic or sexually explicit images,' John James Jr wrote in the July 27 memo leaked to Bloomberg News.

'These actions are not only unprofessional, they reflect time taken away from designated duties, are in clear violation of federal and DoD and regulations, consume network resources and can compromise the security of the network though the introduction of malware or malicious code, he wrote.'

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He added that anyone caught misusing the agency's network will face losing their security clearance and could be suspended, even fired.

Security breach: The Pentagon's defence chiefs are understood to have been furious upon hearing that some staff members had accessed websites 'known to have had virus and malware issues'

Agency spokesman Rick Lehner told Bloomberg that the memo was written after 'a few people' downloaded material 'from some websites that were known to have had virus and malware issues'.

One government cybersecurity expert, who wished to remain anonymous, said criminal gangs and foreign intelligence agencies, such as Russia, embed spyware deep within the coding of pornographic websites in a bid to access and harvest confidential data from governments and corporations.

Such sites contain high-quality images and videos that contain complex computer coding - the ideal place to hide viruses.

The Missile Defense Agency is responsible for developing, fielding and upgrading the nation’s ground- and sea-based missile defense programs.

Inside the heart of defence: The revelation constitutes a massive security risk because pornographic sites provide perfect cover for criminals and foreign spies to smuggle spying software past even the most sophisticated of firewalls (stock image)

It works closely with countries including Japan and Israel as well as companies such as Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.

In July last year, America vowed to retaliate with military force against countries that sabotage its  computers in the Pentagon’s first ever strategy on how to fight  escalating cyber attacks.

Anxious to contend with growing internet incursions linked to Russia and China, U.S. military chiefs reportedly agreed that the most serious sabotage attempts should constitute an act of war.

The document was designed to tackle a changing world in which computer hackers could cripple America’s financial markets or public transport systems.

Source: Mail on line.