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Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack
FoxNews ^ | 11/20/08

Posted on 11/20/2008 4:43:58 PM PST by Sammy67

Edited on 11/20/2008 4:48:23 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Thursday, November 20, 2008 The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned.

The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: china; coldwar2; communists; computers; crime; cyberattack; cybersecurity; defensedepartment; dod; homelandsecurity; internet; iran; military; nationalsecurity; news; pentagon; russia; sovietunion; spyware; trojan; unitedstates; virus; war; web; worm; wot
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To: yorkie; devolve

[she has to sniff every crack and craney]

I have had a variety of dog breeds in my life. Cocker Spaniels, Poodle, my Peke a Poo was named potlatch, lol.

Of all the dogs, I have never had one with the strong sense of smell that a Yorkie has. He can follow a trail like a hunting dog, it’s amazing.

On the other hand, when I fix his dinner and maybe put a few scraps in it, he will stand feet away and decide if he likes it or not. I have seen him turn and walk away, lol.


161 posted on 11/20/2008 8:31:23 PM PST by potlatch
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To: Sammy67; All

You’d think they would at least wait until Borat Osama’s coronation ceremony.


162 posted on 11/20/2008 8:32:51 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: snowrip

Chi-coms? Al Queer-duh? Somebody else?


163 posted on 11/20/2008 8:34:22 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: potlatch

.

LOL!

Picky Piper!


164 posted on 11/20/2008 8:38:17 PM PST by devolve ( ____"hussein the creepy" -- Evan Thomas - Nudesweek ____)
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To: devolve; potlatch

I had a cat that would whack the bowl of dry cat food clear accross the kitchen, if she saw an “X” in it. (The food was X’s and O’s. I had to pick out all the X’s. LOL!)


165 posted on 11/20/2008 8:40:24 PM PST by yorkie (The early bird gets the worm; the second mouse gets the cheese)
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To: zeugma
They'd be better off banning the use of Windows.

You're right. They would be better off running Linux.

166 posted on 11/20/2008 8:41:06 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: Strategerist

The alternative is posting to a document repository with shared access.

Works for us...we bypass e-mail entirely when it comes to document transfer.


167 posted on 11/20/2008 8:42:21 PM PST by HiJinx (~ Support our Troops ~ www.americasupportsyou.mil ~)
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To: devolve

Yep, Piper is picky. That’s why he has me!! Lol.


168 posted on 11/20/2008 8:43:17 PM PST by potlatch
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To: yorkie; devolve
Now THAT'S a very strange story! You should have sent that cat to CYPHER training school, lol. Hard to believe, huh?
169 posted on 11/20/2008 8:45:20 PM PST by potlatch
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To: 1ofmanyfree

1ofmanyfree wrote: “The U.S. government should publicly acknowledge
that China is the top spy threat to the
United States and ban its microchips and associated hardware.”

It is not just China that is a threat as we decline to go EU, so are India and Russia (and to me, the most likely suspect just based on what I read in the news are likely culprits as well as the emerge ahead of us during the reign of Emperor Barry and Court Jesters: Reid and Pelosi.


170 posted on 11/20/2008 8:59:35 PM PST by volslover
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To: yorkie; potlatch

“Harley is a couch potato. He needs to get up off that couch and get a job. ;-)”
~~~
LOL,,,That IZZ his “Job”,,,then we play ball(my job)...;0)


171 posted on 11/20/2008 9:01:11 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; devolve
Hope you saw the you-tube of the ball throwing machine on one of the doggie pings. Something like, “How engineers keep their dogs happy” or somesuch.
172 posted on 11/20/2008 9:15:41 PM PST by potlatch
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To: big'ol_freeper

DoD should use NO commercial software. They should have their own research/development division which write secure software specific to and only available to the military.


173 posted on 11/20/2008 9:21:57 PM PST by scfischer7
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To: potlatch

This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk


174 posted on 11/20/2008 9:25:41 PM PST by yorkie (The early bird gets the worm; the second mouse gets the cheese)
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To: potlatch

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Piper rules the roost


175 posted on 11/20/2008 9:27:46 PM PST by devolve ( ____"hussein the creepy" -- Evan Thomas - Nudesweek ____)
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To: yorkie

Yes, that’s it. Thanks yorkie
Night.


176 posted on 11/20/2008 9:32:47 PM PST by potlatch
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To: devolve

[Piper rules the roost]

He thinks he does devolve. Maybe he’s right!


177 posted on 11/20/2008 9:33:35 PM PST by potlatch
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To: zeugma
They'd be better off banning the use of Windows.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us!

178 posted on 11/20/2008 9:54:17 PM PST by vox_freedom (G K Chesterton: "If there were no God, there would be no atheists.")
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To: yorkie; potlatch

LOL,,,Good one!...sock-monkey is next...;0)


179 posted on 11/20/2008 10:00:47 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: SuziQ

Could be the Chinese, Russians, or Iranians, or a combination of 2 or 3 of them...


180 posted on 11/20/2008 10:33:16 PM PST by Thunder90
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