National labs hit with targeted attacks

National labs hit with targeted attacks
Robert Lemos, 2007-12-10

National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-11
sunil rane (1 replies)

What I do not understand in cases like these is why do goverment agencies cant vent off such kind of attacks in the first place.

Most large coprate networks have multi-layered architectures with the DMZ sufficently protected to take care of unique attacks with heuristic mechanisms. Even endpoint sy...

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Re: National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-14
Anonymous

It's politics - there is a great deal of "enterprise building" and posturing in my .gov organization. Even though there is a fairly reasonable effort at InfoSec on the systems - there is way too much politics at the mid level back end support. For example; the vast majority of IT managers do not...

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National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-11
Anonymous

A sophisticated cyber attack? Good grief!...

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National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

Would locking down the machine (not allowing users to install software) mitigate such an attack?...

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Re: National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-17
Anonymous

Only if you plan on locking down access to e-mail. Check the article again, this was a phishing attack....

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National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-17
Anonymous

Why not run users' desktops in a quarantined sandbox or virtual environment? Wouldn't that prevent these types of attacks from being so damaging? Or at least allow for faster response to and cleanup of an attack?

I have to agree with the response to the first posted reply - in .gov there is too mu...

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National labs hit with targeted attacks 2007-12-25
Anonymous

Cliff Stoll wrote "The Cuckoo's Egg" about attempts to hack into US military computers. The book was published in 1990 and recounts events that took place in 1986-88. Not too much has changed since then,appprently. One poster has raised the issue of securing the desktop and preventing the installati...

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