Defense Networks Breached in 2008
The <em>Washington Post</em> reported on Wednesday that Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III says in an article to be released today that malicious code on a flash drive inserted in a military computer in 2008 in the Middle East "spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems."
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III says in an article to be released today that malicious code on a flash drive inserted in a military computer in 2008 in the Middle East "spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems."
It established "what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control," Lynn says in the article, according to the Post.
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