Pentagon Hid Magnitude of Data Loss From Recent Breach

blueton tips us to a brief story about recent revelations from the Pentagon which indicate that the attack on their computer network in June 2007 was more serious than they originally claimed. A DoD official recently remarked that the hackers were able to obtain an "amazing amount" of data. We previously discussed rumors that the Chinese People's Liberation Army was behind the attack. CNN has an article about Chinese hackers who claim to have successfully stolen information from the Pentagon. Quoting Ars Technica: "The intrusion was first detected during an IT restructuring that was underway at the time. By the time it was detected, malicious code had been in the system for at least two months, and was propagating via a known Windows exploit. The bug spread itself by e-mailing malicious payloads from one system on the network to another."

Comments

Safe?

[anagama]

Who will protect us from the Pentagon?

Duty of the Federal Government

[BoRegardless]

The prime requirement from the constitution for the federal government is to protect our country, & yet they can't be bothered to patch known holes in their systems :-(

The DoD Uses Windos????

[SRA8]

The DoD Uses Windos???? This sounds like a Court-Martial-able offense!