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Network Attack Disables U.S. Naval War College - UPDATE

Josh Rogin writes on FCW.com:

Computer and e-mail systems are off-line at the Naval War College following a network intrusion Nov. 15. After the attack, the Defense Department raised its information warfare awareness level to Information Condition (Infocon) 4.

Navy officials declined to comment on the source of the attack.

The attack was an insolated incident and has not affected other parts of DOD, [an official] said. Meanwhile, the college’s systems have been removed from DOD’s Global Information Grid so that investigators can examine the extent of the intrusion and upgrade firewalls and other security measures, [the official] said.

More here.

Update 11/30 17:45: Bill Gertz at The Washington Times alludes to Chinese hackers here.

posted by Fergie @ 11/30/2006 03:34:00 PM