15 August 2011

Alarm Sounded as Cyber Attacks on US Defense Base Increase and State Hackers Steal Terabytes of Data | #apt #cyberwar #nationalsecurity

Newly released information on cyber attacks against the U.S. government and defense industry suggest that classified information may have been compromised on a grand scale. Web security company McAfee reported last week that at least six U.S. federal government agencies and 13 defense contractors had been attacked as part of a wider operation that penetrated 72 organizations in 14 countries since at least 2006. Last month, a senior Pentagon official said "terabytes" of data had been extracted from corporate networks of defense companies by "foreign intruders."

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