The report highlights troubles at US-CERT, in particular turnover in leadership and severe understaffing.

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The US-CERT, which is affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security, is advising people to disable Java in Web browsers.

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Underscoring the risk, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) found that approximately 27 percent of the 42, 854 agency-reported security incidents during the 2011 fiscal year involved malicious code.

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The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has told computer users to be wary of potential e-mail scams, as well as fake anti-virus and phishing attacks regarding the Japan earthquake and the tsunami disasters.

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"I am in the process of updating security policies and am also working with center CIOs on additional measures recommended by US-CERT to mitigate removable media risks, " wrote chief information officer Jonathan Pettus in an e-mail to employees.

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Even if US-CERT was fully staffed with three shifts to monitor and report on the alerts Einstein generated, even if all of the sensors were deployed, even if all of the information were distributed to every department and agency within DHS, the US would not be able to fight cyber attacks.

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