Senate racing to make its websites hack-proof

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The U.S. Senate has begun shoring up the security of its websites, a step the House has yet to take. Yet both chambers of Congress are far from making their websites not only secure but also accessible.

The changes follow a March report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation titled “Benchmarking U.S. Government Websites,” which reviewed 300 of the most popular of the more than 6,000 websites on more than 400 domains by which the U.S. government provides services.

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