Massive Utah cyberattacks — up to 300 million per day — may be aimed at NSA facility

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2135491-155/massive-utah-cyber-attacks-may-be ^ | First Published Feb 03 2015 10:57AM • Last Updated Feb 03 2015 10:56 pm | LEE DAVIDSON

[BenLurkin]

Five years ago, Utah government computer systems faced 25,000 to 30,000 attempted cyberattacks every day.

At the time, Utah Public Safety Commissioner Keith Squires thought that was massive. "But this last year we have had spikes of over 300 million attacks against the state databases" each day: a 10,000-fold increase.

Why? Squires says it is probably because Utah is home to the new, secretive National Security Agency computer center, and hackers believe they can somehow get to it through state computer systems.

"I really do believe it was all the attention drawn to the NSA facility. In the cyberworld, that's a big deal," Squires told a legislative budget committee Tuesday. "I watched as those increases jumped so much over the last few years. And talking to counterparts in other states, they weren't seeing that amount of increase like we were."

[printhead]

“Build it and they will come”. LMAO

[Steely Tom]

Maybe its the world's biggest honeypot.

The real national data vacuum cleaner is located in a place no one will ever think to ping.

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[bluejean]

300 million per day. All that data’s in China now. Or the Google cube.

[laplata]

All that data’s in China now. Or the Google cube.

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I Googled something about 15 minutes ago and Google wished me a Happy birthday tomorrow. Tomorrow is my birth day.

Scary.

[867V309]

Attempting to give a cr@p in 5 seconds...4 seconds...3 seconds...2 seconds...1 second

attempt to give a cr@p failed.

[TigersEye]

Massive Utah cyberattacks — up to 300 million per day —

[Pontiac]

Why would anyone think that they could get to the NSA computers through the State of Utah computer network?

That’s just stupid.

What possible reason would the NSA have for connecting to Utah’s computer network? The states are pretty notorious for neglecting cyber security.

Not to mention what would be the added value for connecting to an individual states computer network?

[Squantos]

FYI...

[Squantos]

FYI...

[Flick Lives]

Why would anyone think that they could get to the NSA computers through the State of Utah computer network?

That's what I was thinking. For that matter, what does geographic proximity have to do with breaking into NSA? It's not like a bank heist in a movie where the burglars tunnel into the vault from the pizza parlor next-door to the bank.

[piasa]

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