#government-infrastructure

#government-infrastructure

COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language, is the most widely adopted computer language in history. Of the 300 billion lines of code that had been written by the year 2000, 80 percent of them were in COBOL. It's still in widespread use and supports a large number of government systems, such as motor vehicle records and unemployment insurance; on any given day, it can handle something on the order of 3 trillion dollars' worth of financial transactions.

"Medicaid is a federal and state partnership, they have to administer it and essentially build a machine to administer this new set of bureaucracy that the tax bill is putting on them."

The Czech Republic has formally accused the People’s Republic of China of conducting malicious cyber activities against its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with an ongoing investigation into the extent of the breach.