Investigation into data security breach at Ministry for Foreign Affairs progresses

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http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/9193-investigation-into-data-security-breach-at-ministry-for-foreign-affairs-progresses.html

Helsinki Times
01 Feb 2014

While investigating the cyber-espionage attack against it, the Ministry 
for Foreign Affairs has determined, for example, the methods used to 
infiltrate its data network. The ministry's information and documentation 
division is currently finalising a report on the security breach and is to 
present it to policy-makers and government officials in March.

"The investigation has progressed. We know the channel but don't know the 
party behind it. We therefore know where the infection came from and what 
opened the hole in our data network," says Ari Uusikartano, the director 
general of the division.

"We are beginning to have quite a lot of information on how the attack has 
taken place and what methods were used," he adds.

Users of the network, Uusikartano reveals, were not prompted to disclose 
information to aid the infiltrator, a method used commonly in similar 
attacks. "In this case, the attack came through the web."

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