A “significant compromise” of U.S. military networks has been acknowledged by the Pentagon two years after the breach was reported in the press. “In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks,” Deputy Secretary of Defense William S. Lynn III wrote in an article in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. “It began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East,” he explained.
To quote: "The malware originating from the infected USB drive was dubbed "Agent.btz." It's a variation of the SillyFDC worm."
This is a worm that only infects the microsft windows OS. If the Pentagon would be so smart as to use operating systems which are safe this security breach would NEVER have happened, or at least would have been MUCH harder to accomplish and MUCH easier to fix.
When will these people realize that an OS such as windows is NOT safe to use for classified (or any) military purposes.
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Pentagon: Yep, We Got Hacked
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. August 26, 2010 09:09 AMA “significant compromise” of U.S. military networks has been acknowledged by the Pentagon two years after the breach was reported in the press. “In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks,” Deputy Secretary of Defense William S. Lynn III wrote in an article in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. “It began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East,” he explained.
This is a worm that only infects the microsft windows OS. If the Pentagon would be so smart as to use operating systems which are safe this security breach would NEVER have happened, or at least would have been MUCH harder to accomplish and MUCH easier to fix.
When will these people realize that an OS such as windows is NOT safe to use for classified (or any) military purposes.