.Gov security fails during us shutdown

The security of US government websites is more compromised than ever during the ongoing federal shutdown in the country. Dozens of websites and remote access servers are experiencing security flaws due to expired certificates becoming inaccessible to their users.

The security gap is opened even more

And they have pita that this is not going to just stay here. The security of dozens of websites with a .gov extension in the US is being compromised due to the expiration of digital access certificates. Facts that affect the US Department of Justice, the Court of Appeals and even NASA.

The main problem is that more than 400, 000 federal employees are currently suspended from their salary, mainly due to the serious problems that Donald Trump is having to move forward with his budgets, which includes an expense of 5.7 billion dollars to the famous wall of Mexico.

The situation does not seem to be resolved in the coming days, resulting in the low update and renewal of these security certificates that allow you to access web pages with encrypted content safely. More than 80 TLS certificates have fallen and this is expected to increase in the following days.

A clear example of this can be the page https://ows2.usdoj.gov where we are shown that the connection is not private. And pages such as the.gov of Berkeley Lab today, are also not accessible https://d2l.lbl.gov In most cases we can access if we click on the advanced configuration option of the site and we accept to access in an insecure way, but imagine the security breach so important that it is to log in to a page without encryption of any kind.

We will see if for wanting to make the wall at all costs, the US digital security wall falls, which would be very serious and with really alarming consequences. It is the perfect opportunity for hackers to extract murky information from the world power.

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