DoD Lost 24k Files In Attack On Contractor 49
Trailrunner7 writes with this news from ThreatPost: "A targeted attack on a defense contractor in March of this year resulted in the theft of 24,000 files by an unknown attacker, according to Defense Department officials. The attack, which officials say was the work of a foreign government, would represent one of the more serious known attacks on the department and its contractors. In a speech Thursday in which he unveiled the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, William J. Lynn, deputy defense secretary, said that the attack was just one of thousands such intrusions that the government and its contractors suffer every year."
They don't "suffer" from attacks. (Score:5, Insightful)
> the attack was just one of thousands such intrusions that the government and its contractors suffer every year
No, the government and its contractors suffer from incompetence, a lack of encryption, authentication, and data handling procedures. They suffer from violations of their own process. "Here, take this database, decrypt it and email it to our vendor." They suffer from upper management promoted on rank and time served, not competence.
The intrusions aren't what they suffer... they are a direct consequence of the incompetence our government shows daily.
How's that debt ceiling coming? I'd like to have mine raised. The mortgage is due tomorrow.
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Dear LulzSec & Anonymous (Score:4, Insightful)
Dear LulzSec & Anonymous
Please continue making headlines with your infodumps from .gov, .mil, and contractor websites.
It's not like you're doing much damage, considering the terabytes being siphoned off by foreign governments.
Maybe if there's a bright enough spotlight shone onto the problem, the government will finally get around to fixing it.
Thank You,
Joe Q. Public
I'm trying to figure out... (Score:5, Insightful)
why are these machines even connected to the net?