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Amnesia10

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Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack in March

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14157975


	Quote: The Pentagon has admitted it suffered a major cyber attack in which thousands of files were taken by foreign hackers. Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn said that in a March attack and other breaches, hackers had taken information on "our most sensitive systems". The admission came as the Pentagon rolled out a strategy for strengthening US cyber capabilities and addressing threats and attacks in cyberspace.

The News of the World journalists?

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Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:31 am

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Re: Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack in March

Amnesia10 wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14157975


	Quote: The Pentagon has admitted it suffered a major cyber attack in which thousands of files were taken by foreign hackers. Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn said that in a March attack and other breaches, hackers had taken information on "our most sensitive systems". The admission came as the Pentagon rolled out a strategy for strengthening US cyber capabilities and addressing threats and attacks in cyberspace.

The News of the World journalists?

Nah, just Glen Mulcaire. This is where we find out he suffers from Asperger's and is unfit to be extradited to the US.

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Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:37 am

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Re: Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack in March

I'd have thought that anything really top secret or sensitive at the Pentagon would be stored on computers that don't have any direct connection to the Internet as such. Then again, the most secure and well-protected building on earth was hit by an airliner on 9/11.....wasn't it?

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Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:58 pm

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Re: Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack in March


	Quote: In a speech at National Defense University in Washington, Mr Lynn said about 24,000 files containing Pentagon data were stolen from a defence industry computer network in March

It's the industry bit that got me, I was thinking contractor or something. Though if a plonker from the UK can get into the Pentagon system...

EDIT - Managed to click code instead of quote before :lol:

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Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:16 pm

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Re: Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack in March

Amnesia10 wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14157975


	Quote: The Pentagon has admitted it suffered a major cyber attack in which thousands of files were taken by foreign hackers. Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn said that in a March attack and other breaches, hackers had taken information on "our most sensitive systems". The admission came as the Pentagon rolled out a strategy for strengthening US cyber capabilities and addressing threats and attacks in cyberspace.

The News of the World journalists?

The report I read said it was a defence contractor that was hacked, not the Pentagon itself...

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Re: Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack in March


	big_D wrote: The report I read said it was a defence contractor that was hacked, not the Pentagon itself...

You would have thought that decent cyber security would be mandatory for any defence contractor. :shock:

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