Michael Brown, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s former chief, said high-level Department of Homeland Security officials were informed of New Orleans’ levee failures the first day Hurricane Katrina hit land, the Associated Press reports via Yahoo News.A number of top DHS officials had previously stated it had no idea until the following day.“I find it a little disingenuous,” Brown, who was in charge of FEMA at the time, told a Senate oversight committee. “For them to claim that we didn’t have awareness of it is just baloney.”Brown indicated that the “path of failure” was paved by decisions and policies created by DHS, and they led to the agency’s less-than-stellar response. Brown hasn’t been shy in flinging Katrina-related accusations in the past, but he took it a step further in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, blaming specific sections of the President’s administration.Brown resigned from FEMA shortly after Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, killing some 13,000 people and displacing countless hundreds of thousands of others. Don’t forget to keep checking in at our CSO Security Feed page for updated news coverage. Related content news Okta launches Cybersecurity Workforce Development Initiative New philanthropic and educational grants aim to advance inclusive pathways into cybersecurity and technology careers. By Michael Hill Oct 04, 2023 3 mins IT Skills Careers Security news New critical AI vulnerabilities in TorchServe put thousands of AI models at risk The vulnerabilities can completely compromise the AI infrastructure of the world’s biggest businesses, Oligo Security said. By Shweta Sharma Oct 04, 2023 4 mins Vulnerabilities news ChatGPT “not a reliable” tool for detecting vulnerabilities in developed code NCC Group report claims machine learning models show strong promise in detecting novel zero-day attacks. By Michael Hill Oct 04, 2023 3 mins DevSecOps Generative AI Vulnerabilities news Google Chrome zero-day jumps onto CISA's known vulnerability list A serious security flaw in Google Chrome, which was discovered under active exploitation in the wild, is a new addition to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s Known Exploited vulnerabilities catalog. By Jon Gold Oct 03, 2023 3 mins Zero-day vulnerability Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe