Pentagon Slammed by Cyber Attack
The Pentagon has suffered a direct hit from a cyber attack. The weapon used is said to be a hybrid computer worm/virus. Insiders say the hybrid rapidly spread through the thousands of interconnected defense computer networks. A computer worm is different from a computer virus. A worm is thought to be more dangerous because it can run itself where as a virus needs a host program to run. The DoD responded quickly and has taken steps to slow the advancement of the worm/virus by quarantining networks and systems until the worm/virus can be removed.
Cyber investigators have not pinpointed the entry point for the worm/virus, but insider sources point to removable storage devices as the most likely point of infection. This seems to be supported by the fact that U.S. Strategic Command has banned the use of removable media (thumb drives, CDRs/DVDRs, floppy disks) on all DoD networks and computers effective immediately. This incident has been deemed so severe that unprecedented defensive measures have been instituted to protect the military systems.
Oddly enough, all Internet users are being warned to stay vigilant by security experts who believe that Monday, Nov. 24 is poised to be the worst day of the year for computer attacks.
Security experts at Spy-Ops I spoke with said, "If this can happen to the Department of Defense it can happened to any organization." They went on to say that the cost of this attack could easily reach into the billions of dollars if the worm/virus destroys data. If that's not bad enough, one expert went on to say that the nightmare scenario is if the malicious code alters data rather than deleting it -- a much more difficult problem to resolve.
News of the cyber attack came on the heels of today's release of the "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" document by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The document stated that non-military means of warfare, such as cyber, economic, resource, psychological and information-based forms of conflict will become more prevalent in conflicts over the next two decades.
While the source of the attack remains classified, the usual cast of characters comes to mind. At the head of the list are of course China and the RBN -- Russian Business Network. If the attack is found to be sponsored by another country, could this be considered an act of cyber war?
-- Kevin Coleman
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== The Pentagon ==
The Pentagon is a building that is design in a triangle shape. This design have protection building but it failed on 11 september when airplane crash in Building. The Pentagon is a military that is support by U.S Defence.
The personnel of Pentagon are tough guy that play at soldiers. Pentagon give employee to much rights on the computer. Security Pentagon network is often as leak! The Pentagon block IP ADDRESS ouf outside of USA can not visited website. Pentagon is scared of cyberattact of outsite. Its popular by hackers out of whole world to look in to secret's of USA Defense computers! Only sad news is that Secret Service arrest you bring in The HELL of Guantanamo Bay a military prison that like on a concentration camp! Some say that this torture of George W Bush. Some soldiers take there USB drive at home
and forget that there child's download malware on computer that in infected daddy USB Drive.
Some naughty boy make for dad a real fake USB drive that like on US Defence and drop it in daddy rucksack. When dad go to his work and plugin USB drive on computer that are connect on Pentagon Network. Now the malware infected Network of Pentagon but don't take care a Special Defense Firewall of U.S Defense have block the access inside that make connection to outside. This firewall work fully automatic on a automatic pilote. The infected computer are now offline on network!
Posted by: UNDERC0VER at December 2, 2008 03:08 PM