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Admin. Babbitt: Human error, not technology, behind November FAA outage

Early reports say human error caused the breakdown of an FAA communications system in November. That word comes from FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt in an exclusive interview with FederalNewsRadio. Babbitt says technicians performing a router upgrade turned off a warning system but didn't switch it on when they finished. That resulted in a system breakdown, snarling air traffic around the country.

Tags: mngt , tech , FAA , outage , Randy Babbitt , Suzanne Kubota

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Big risk-taking at small agencies

Survey finds bigger cybersecurity lapses at smaller agencies.

Tags: tech , cybersecurity , sabotage , Symantec , Jim Russell

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Cybersecurity: the Human Factor

Tags: tech , cybersecurity , sabotage , Symantec , Jim Russell

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