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State Department Hit With Many More Break-Ins
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."
Of course, that's what the bayonet is for!
This could put the State Department ahead of MySpace as the #1 destination site.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Maybe they shouldn't have been outsourcing. (that's a joke people)
Philosophy.
Great now they'll get buried in viagra ads. Guys they aren't trying to steal secrets they just wanted your security down so they can sell you dick pills and cheap pirate software. Oh and by the way that nice guy in Nigeria wants to take money out of your account not put it in.
Joke answer: because they invented it!
Because they're on the green.
For a bunker shot, they'd use a sand wedge.
After the State Department break-ins, many employees were instructed to change their passwords.
The root password is now "god" instead of "sex"
The password for the defense department computers in question was 'Joshua'.
If you don't get this your not geek enough, hang your head in shame.
Users... the only thing keeping 1st level support from being the bottom feeders.
I submitted what I could. I didn't even gt a "thank you" email. I would have been happy with a "thank you" message. But I got nothing.
My opinion of the dept of Homeland Security as well as the FBI sank immeasurabily as a result.
Your error was that you failed to realize what the priorities of these agencies are. Report the incident again only this time put the words 'terrorist' and 'activity' in the subject line. Wait an hour and then turn on the TV, switch to a news channel and you should hear reports of massive USAF airstrikes somewhere in Romania. For shorter response times try adding the word 'Osama' to the subject line. Just be careful when using the words 'bin' and 'Laden' since combining those with the other three in one subject line might lead to a tactical nuclear strike.
Nothing news about this; this is a dupe; there was already an article before of the US being the #1 destination for Internet traffic.
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
It would seem that unfortunately this particular horse has managed to build himself a back door as well, unfortunately.
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"said U.S. officials familiar with the hacking"
When did they hire anyone like that? I call their bluff!
Perhaps they hired some first-rate plumbers - they know how to "hack" into tubes.