DICT finds over 30,000 vulnerabilities in govt digital assets

The Department of Information and Communications Technology said on Tuesday it detected over 30,000 vulnerabilities in 2,002 government digital assets.DICT Undersecretary Jeffrey Ian Dy made the disclosure during the House information and communications panel probe on recent incidents of hacking government websites.

Of these, 2,250 vulnerabilities were deemed critical, while 1,958 were classified as high. A total of 8,744 were regarded as medium, while 17,728 were deemed of low severity.“The state of our government agencies’ are not good, but please understand that this is something we can resolve overnight,” Dy said.“At least, information is now in hands, including the type of vulnerabilities found, so that if they need to procure something to defend themselves, then they can do so,” Dy pointed out.

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