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New Mega-Botnet Discovered
yahoi writes "According to the DarkReading article, 'Researchers have discovered a major botnet operating out of the Ukraine that has infected 1.9 million machines, including large corporate and government PCs mainly in the US. The botnet, which appears to be larger than the infamous Storm botnet was in its heyday, has infected machines from some 77 government-owned domains — 51 of which are in the US government. Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it's controlled by six individuals, and includes machines in major banks.'"
It's just "Ukraine", not "the Ukraine".
Why would a competent sysadmin even design a network hooked to the general internet to begin with if security is an absolute must?
... maybe because of Internet banking? Risk, cost or convenience, pick two.
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The data was not lost from military systems, it was obtained by crackers who penetrated military contractor's commercial systems. Yes, that leads to a whole bunch of questions and is not by any means an absolution of the military's IT security. But your statement does not match the facts.
To hear the gods laugh tell them your plans.
The data was not classified, just FOUO. Electronic copies exist for convince sake. It depends on the project, but there is usually no requirements for encryption of such documents. Expect that to change... soon.