Hacked in a flash!
The "most significant breach" of the U.S. Central Command network computers so far has been acknowledged by a top American defence official. The attack in 2008 is of interest to everyone involved in the security industry, primarily because of the method used to introduce a rogue program to the military network.
According to the Guardian Newspaper a number of standard memory sticks were scattered in a washroom at a US military base by persons unknown. It was then just a matter of time before some soldiers pocketed these useful little devices for themselves. After that it was again just a matter of time before one of them plugged it in to a military laptop and unwittingly unleashed a hidden worm virus which wreaked havoc on the US military's central command computers for more than 12 months.
Unsurprisingly the Pentagon is keeping quiet about exactly what trouble the worm caused and which foreign agency or hacker they suspect of initiating the attack. The story should serve to remind us that firewall software can never be the complete answer to digital security. The weaker side of human nature is one of the most powerful tools in the enemy's arsenal.
Now ask yourself what might have been hidden on those freebie memory sticks you picked up at that trade show last year?
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