OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

[Ryan Rix]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/pentagon-cyber-siege-unprecedente
> d-attack/
>


>... it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external
>hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's...

>The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading
rapidly throughout a number of military networks.
I fail to see the connection....
In my experience worms and virii usually don't propagate through DVDs... and
rarely through flash drives. will banning these things REALLY secure things?
what keeps a user behind their networks from opening
VitalIntelligenceReport.doc.exe and executing it?

~ryan


-- 
Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
(623)-239-1103 <-- Grand Central, baby!

Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica
Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20081121/56d25732/attachment.htm