Posted on 07/12/2006 1:10:32 PM PDT by Sean Flynn
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department is investigating a major computer break-in that targeted its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, department officials said Tuesday.
The officials made clear that the break-in over the past several weeks affected only the State Department's unclassified computer system and did not compromise its classified system.
"The department detected anomalies in network traffic," department spokeswoman Nancy Beck said. The interruption was "not a virus," she said.
The agency's emergency response resulted in limited access to the Internet, with secure and encrypted sites such as banking and personal e-mails restricted for a longer period of time, Beck said.
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The Chinese and North Koreans aren't slouches in the hacking dept.
We will know the contents soon enough, in the NYT!
Well said.
MUST be an inside job...why not! Seems there are more RATS willing to sacrifice this country and our children for the sake of their HATRED towards Mr. Bush. NOPE! It wouldn't surprise me one bit!!
Posted the CBS story here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664409/posts
My network at work is pinged by NK IP addresses every 5 minutes. I would hate to have any doors open.
They must have gotten impatient--tne NYT just wasn't publishing all these secrets fast enough for them!
The clintons now have a cover story for the release of classified information.
Clintonistas in the State Department...?
These are the same idiots buying their computers from a "company" owned by the Chinese government.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/032706-lenovo-rejects-security-conerns.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
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