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State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies
Hot on the heels of recent cyber attacks on NOAA, the USPS, and the White House, the New York Times reports that the U.S. State Department has also suffered an online security breach, though it's not clear who to blame.
“This has impacted some of our unclassified email traffic and our access to public websites from our main unclassified system,” said one senior State Department official, adding that the department expected its systems to be up soon. ....The breach at the White House was believed to be the work of hackers in Russia, while the breaches at NOAA and the Postal Service were believed to the work of hackers inside China. Attributing attacks to a group or nation is difficult because hackers typically tend to route their attack through compromised web servers all over the world. A senior State Department official said the breach was discovered after “activity of concern” was detected on portions of its unclassified computer system. Officials did not say how long hackers may have been lurking in those systems, but security improvements were being added to them on Sunday.
I always found it entertaining that In govt you have zero education people dictating IT and IS policies.
But it's the same way in corporate america, I have yet to meet a CIO or CTO that has a clue.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
NOAA was taken down and it almost effected everyone that uses the weather/sea info. And that's a lot of companies and organizations.
Hot on the heels of recent cyber attacks on NOAA, the USPS, and the White House, the New York Times Reports that the U.S. State Department has also suffered an online security breach, though it's not clear who to blame.
For a moment there I thought TFA was not going to blindly name drop China or Russia. Don't worry folks, they did not forget!