There's been no shortage of news about hacking efforts over the last several months, with companies like The Home Depot and a variety of others weighing in that networks have been compromised, information potentially taken, and so on. That hacking has even reached the United States government, and now the State Department joins in the chorus of those impacted. But the agency has let no grass grow beneath its feet, and has taken steps to secure its electronic borders.
The reports suggest that the State Department's unclassified computer network was shut down over the weekend after some evidence emerged that the network may actually have been hacked instead. Originally, an email emerged late on Friday that the state department was shutting down its unclassified systems as part of a normally-scheduled maintenance round. This would in turn have impact on both email traffic in and out of the system as well as access to public websites. But that changed early Monday when word from a senior official noted that “activity of concern” had been found in the system, particularly devoted to non-classified material like email. Thus, the routine maintenance undertaken that weekend included an array of security augmentations to help protect against future breaches. The same official noted that all the impact had been taken in the non-classified sections, and that the classified sections remained uncompromised.Read More
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