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U.S. DoD Battles Increasingly Hostile Cyberattacks
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:34:43 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via FCW.com. [snip] The Defense Department continues to battle increasingly sophisticated attacks against its information systems and networks, including significant and widespread attempts to penetrate systems with targeted, socially engineered e-mail messages in a technique known as spear phishing. According to internal documents and DOD officials, the department has fought back with requirements that users log on to networks with a Common Access Card (CAC) that electronically verifies their identities and digitally signs e-mail messages with the key contained on that card. It has also required the use of plain text e-mail messages and converts HTML messages to plain text because HTML can contain programming code that plants keystroke loggers, viruses and other malware on computers, according to a Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) presentation on spear phishing awareness training that all DOD employees and contractors must complete by Jan. 17. [snip] More: http://www.fcw.com/article97281-01-08-07-Print Background: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/12/update-mystery-hacker-breaks-into.html http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/12/us-national-defense-university-takes.h tml http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/12/us-dod-bans-use-of-html-e-mail-outlook .html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFForjuq1pz9mNUZTMRAtdGAKDUtQVakoxn0mnAhEBKm9H+rMPwcwCgoHs8 9jFFkIZzckV+i1Q7GtX6Cmo= =fwPu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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