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Federal Reports
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Inspection and Evaluation of the February 2018 CFTC-SEC harmonization briefing
Closeout Audit of USAID Resources Managed by Building Markets Ltd. Under Sustainable Market Initiatives-Liberia Program, Grant Agreement AID-669-G-12-00001, October 1, 2014, to March 4, 2017
The OIG investigated suspicious internet traffic discovered during an IT security audit of the computer network at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center satellite imaging facility in Sioux Falls, SD. The audit found indications that a USGS employee’s computer was compromised and infected with malware. We sought to confirm how a compromise occurred.We found that the employee knowingly used U.S. Government computer systems to access unauthorized internet web pages. We also found that those unauthorized pages hosted malware that downloaded to the employee’s Government laptop. The malware then exploited USGS’ system; it introduced additional malicious code, reduced the Department’s ability to monitor exploits, introduced a covert channel program, and automatically connected to malicious websites in Russia. We did not find evidence that the employee intentionally introduced the malware, nor was there evidence of data exfiltration. We issued a separate Management Advisory related to this investigation discussing vulnerabilities in USGS’ IT security posture.The employee retired a day before his employment was to be terminated. We provided this report to the Director of the USGS.
On January 5, 2015, the Postal Service revised its First-Class Mail (FCM) service standards, eliminating single-piece overnight FCM service and shifting some mail from a 2-day to a 3-day service standard. These revisions enabled the Postal Service to expand its mail processing operational window to process mail on fewer machines, thus using less facility square footage. This is known as the operational window change OWC. The OWC also required changes in mail transportation. The Postal Service projected the OWC would save over $805 million annually. The objective of our audit was to determine if the Postal Service achieved its projected savings for the OWC.
