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+-   Pentagon hides actual data loss in recent breach.-> on Friday March 07 2008, @07:51PM blueton

Submitted by blueton on Friday March 07 2008, @07:51PM
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blueton writes "Back last June hackers penetrated the pentagons computer systems. Early indicated suggested it was the China's People's Liberation Army. Now as months have passed new information is coming to light about the attack. Apparently an "Amazing amount of data" was stolen from the pentagon, much more than was previously disclosed. The infection was caused by a known patched windows exploit. The bug spread itself by e-mailing malicious payloads from one system on the network to another. The messages themselves were spoofed and appeared to be legitimate missives from other employees. Once the recipient opened an infected e-mail, the worm sent that person's password and other login credentials back to home base. The worst thing about it all, the trojan was there for 2 months before it was discovered! Officials claim that classified systems were'nt breached in the attack, but that could not completely be confirmed either."
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