Foreign spy agency pulled off most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:25 am by GottaLaff
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Cyber attacks can be as threatening to the United States as military ones. File under “Yikes!”:

A foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop, a top defense official said Wednesday.

The previously classified incident, which took place in 2008 in the Middle East, was disclosed in a magazine article by Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn and released by the Pentagon Wednesday. [...]

Lynn did not disclose what, if any, military secrets may have been stolen in the 2008 penetration of the system, what nation orchestrated the attack, nor whether there were any other repercussions.

2008, huh? Blame it on Obama.

Unnerving details here.

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