Russia hacked into the Pentagon’s email system

[jos]

Russia has launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system — an attack which led the military to shut down the system for nearly two weeks.

According to the officials, the intrusion occurred sometime around July 25 and affected about 4,000 military and civilian personnel who work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The officials said the suspected Russian hackers coordinated the cyber attack via social media accounts. It's not clear whether the attack was sanctioned by the Russian government or was the work of individuals.

It appears the cyberattack relied on some kind of automated system that rapidly gathered massive amounts of data and within a minute distributed all the information to thousands of accounts on the Internet. The officials also report the suspected Russian hackers coordinated the sophisticated cyberassault via encrypted accounts on social media.

 

 

I guess us will do a counter offensive hack to russia, The question is will it make to news like this one...how Is government sanctioed hacks considered as terorism or war?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/cyberattack-pentagons-joint-staff-emails-take-system-offline-n405321

[Arty]

ok was it Russia or someone in Russia.

 

 

and they don't even know for sure.

 

 

they could be lieing to us again like 9/11

i really don't believe what ever the gov says anyway.

[CTR640]

[Sidiox]

This whole cyberwarfare is a bit difficult to understand. You could define many things as cyberwarefare. For instance the NSA monitoring of everything that happens on the internet and therefore on what your Russian people do on it could be defined as sort of an attack on the Russian cyberspace.

And it is of course also important to know who actually made them attack.

[Guest]

 

It's not clear whether the attack was sanctioned by the Russian government or was the work of individuals.

 

Should probably change the title to 'Russians', rather than Russia. 

[ise]

If its anything like the bombers they've been sending near the UK airspace to force us to scramble our fighters, its just russia pushing buttons and trying to provoke something imho. but what do i know, im only a dev

[linuxfan66]

Isn't the U.S. And China doing cyberwarfare as well...

[GoldSrc]

But hey, there's not much to worry about, the US has and loves encryption, right? /s

http://webm.land/media/VRJv.webm