SEC Employees Brought Sensitive Data to Hacker Con
A yet-unreleased report finds that security experts at the SEC brought sensitive data to the Black Hat Security Briefings, an annual hacker and security convention.
The group responsible for protecting computers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Trading and Markets Division traveled with laptops that contained sensitive, yet unencrypted, information on the security of the financial agency, Reuters reported earlier this month.
Members of the group even attended the annual Black Hat Security Briefings conference in Las Vegas, where hackers and security professionals meet to exchange information on threats and defenses, stated the article, citing the yet-unreleased report by the SEC's Office of Inspector General. The Trading and Markets Division sets regulations and oversees compliance for the nation's equity markets. The division tracks information on the information infrastructure of the exchanges and their disaster management policies.
