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State Department Hit With Many More Break-Ins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the crackers-and-hackers-and-press-oh-my dept.

adjust28 writes to tell us CNN is reporting that the US State Department has been dealing with a number of computer break-ins with regards to their headquarters and offices dealing with China and Korea over the past couple of weeks. From the article: "Investigators believe hackers stole sensitive U.S. information and passwords and implanted backdoors in unclassified government computers to allow them to return at will, said U.S. officials familiar with the hacking."

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  1. Re:Homeland security is a joke by killjoe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This guy was just another hacker. If you want homeland security to go after him you need to paint him as a liberal who protests the war or Bush. If he was an arab you would not have to do that but he is a white guy so that's your best bet.

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  2. Re:The horse has bolted by EraserMouseMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't want to trigger a Windows/Linux debate

    And then you turn right around and quote somebody saying something about the military using Windows machines. I wasn't aware that the State Department is a branch of the US Military. Am I wrong about that? Or are you using unrelated quotes to to flamethrow?

    And then the second half of your misapplied quote, "it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn't secured it properly." Now *nix would be an easy hack if not secured properly as well, now wouldn't it? In fact, if it's not secured properly the penetration can barely be called a hack. If the door is open there's no breaking in required.

    I don't want to trigger a Windows/Linux debate . . . but your post was 95% flamebait.