Posted 11/21/08 at 07:36:31 AM by Paul Lilly
Cyber attacks on the Pentagon are nothing new, but the latest infiltration has the Defense Department taking unprecedented steps to prevent further damage. In doing so, the Pentagon has banned the use of DVDs, flash drives, and all external hardware, according to Fox News.
"We have detected a global virus for which there has been alerts, and we have seen some of this on our networks," a Pentagon official told FOX News. "We are now taking steps to mitigate the virus."
The official stopped short of saying where the virus originated from, and as long as the information remains classified, we may never know. But Fox News did learn that the Pentagon has been aware of an impending attack from a memo that was sent out a week ago.
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Links:
[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/one4yu2c
[2] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/pentagon-cyber-siege-unprecedented-attack/
[3] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/whoops_asus_ships_a_software_hack_recovery_dvd
[4] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/internet_security_2_0
[5] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/heal_and_inoculate_your_pc
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