Posted on 06/11/2015 11:54:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A hacker attack on the Bundestag (German parliament) earlier in 2015 means that an entirely new network will have to be built after experts failed to fix the breach.
The Federal Office of Information Technology Security (BSI) decided that it could no longer defend against the attack and had to give up, broadcasters NDR and WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday.
Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday evening that data was still flowing out of the parliament to unknown recipients, and that rebuilding the network using completely new hardware would take months and cost millions. …
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The hackers doing this are ruining their chance to do it in a war.
All the targets will be hardened
I hope you’re right. Seems like the hackers always get around the counter-measures.
That’s when they send their moles into action.
Well, that’s the second country (first was U.S.) to admit that our ‘records’ have all been sold off to corporate interests and to further establishment of the New World Order.
If it was really hackers.
Armor doesn’t matter if you keep the doors wide open.
The weak link is the user.
Do stupid thing behind the firewall and the firewall can’t protect you.
Yup. The vast majority of these breaches are initiated from clueless users.
There is really not going to be much you can do about this stuff as long as you have users with the ability to run arbitrary code.
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