Phishing Attack Hits Oak Ridge National Laboratory

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/229402048

By Elizabeth Montalbano 
InformationWeek
April 21, 2011 

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is 
investigating a sophisticated phishing attack that forced it to shut 
down email and Internet access last week.

As of Thursday, external email and Internet service was still not back 
online at the lab, though employees were once again allowed use of their 
smartphones, Barbara Penland, a lab spokeswoman, said in an interview. 
She said the lab expects to restore Internet service and access to 
external email sometime next week.

The lab -- which houses some of the world's most powerful supercomputers 
and stores classified government data--was hit with a phishing attack on 
April 7 that was designed specifically to remove information from the 
network.

"We ended up with an excess of 570 of those emails coming in to 
different people and we had some folks who clicked on the email," she 
said. "One or two of them managed to get through into the system."

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