Declassified story: USB hack successful on government net in 2008 #pauto #cybersecurity #ICS

The Washington Post is reporting that a senior defense department official, William J. Lynn III, writing in Foreign Affairs magazine has declassified and disclosed a cyber attack on US Government (military) computers and networks propagated by a USB stick, loaded onto a US military laptop in the Middle East in 2008.

"That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control," he says in the Foreign Affairs article, which is to be published tomorrow, August 26.

Read the whole Washington Post article here.

Read Foreign Affairs here.