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posted by Fergie @ 7/09/2011 04:00:00 AM
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posted by Fergie @ 7/08/2011 05:39:00 PM
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posted by Fergie @ 7/07/2011 05:57:00 PM
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William Jackson writes on GCN.com:
Two Energy Department research facilities on opposite sides of the country have been taken offline by what one spokesman called a “sophisticated cyber attack.”
Officials became aware July 1 that the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., and the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., were under attack, PNNL spokesman Greg Koller said.
All network services initially were shut down at PNNL, but external e-mail had been restored by the afteroon on July 6, Koller said. Internal e-mail and some intranet connections havd already been restored at the laboratory. The public website at www.pnl.gov remained offline July 6.
“We expect we will be able to get them online over the next three days,” Koller said.
The Jefferson Lab website at www.jlab.org also was unavailable on Wednesday.
posted by Fergie @ 7/06/2011 05:26:00 PM
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posted by Fergie @ 7/04/2011 07:10:00 AM
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posted by Fergie @ 7/04/2011 03:00:00 AM
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posted by Fergie @ 7/04/2011 12:01:00 AM
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Adam Clarke Estes writes in The Atlantic Wire:
The U.S. miltary has known for quite some time that they have a quality control problem with the microchips they've been buying in China. A 2005 report from the Defense Science Board warned that in buying weapon circuitry overseas, "trojan horse" chips could find their way into American weapons, potentially prompting missiles to detonate early or computers to shut down in the event of an attack. Then, in 2008, an investigation by BusinessWeek revealed that this was, in fact, happening--fake Chinese microchips were crashing American military networks. In 2010, the military bought 59,000 chips that turned out to be counterfeits. Last week, the government finally announced that they wanted to figure out a way to spot "trojan horse" chips. What took them so long?
Well, for one, China's gotten really good at counterfeiting. The fake Louis Vuitton bags they sell on Canal Street in New York City is one thing, but brand-stamped microchips sold to the U.S. military in the thousands is different in a number of different ways. When BusinessWeek investigated this issue, they found that money and "affirmative-action goals" steered government equipment buyers away from the most trusted manufacturers...
posted by Fergie @ 7/03/2011 08:58:00 AM
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