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Pentagon probe of WikiLeaks found security breaches going undetected The disclosure of thousands of internal government documents to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks highlighted the failures within the Pentagon to protect the loss and compromise of information as the result of insiders, according to a member of Congress. Rep. John Tierney, D-Ma, and ranking member of the national security, homeland defense and foreign operations subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, disclosed during a hearing May 25 that the Pentagon reviewed its computer security in the WikiLeaks failure. Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered two studies of computer security at the Pentagon after WikiLeaks began releasing documents in June 2010. "The studies found that the department's policies for dealing with an internal security threat were inadequate, and that the department had limited capability to detect and monitor anomalous behavior on its classified computer networks," Tierney said. Other threats to computer networks included the Chinese computer attack on Google and at least 80 other U.S. companies. Tierney said last month in Massachusetts a virus called W32.qqakbot was discovered on computers at the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. "As a result, the Labor Department said as many as 210,000 unemployed workers may have had data compromised, including their names, Social Security numbers, employer identification numbers, addresses and email addresses," he said. "Cyber attacks on our federal IT systems are on the rise," Tierney said, noting multiple threats from foreign nations engaged in espionage and information warfare, criminals, hackers, disgruntled employees and contractors. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
