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Computer and e-mail systems are off-line at the Naval War College following a network intrusion Nov. 15. After the attack, the Defense Department raised its information warfare awareness level to Information Condition (Infocon) 4.
| I'm guessing it's a Windows-based system. We've been having mysterious connection problems all week where I work. |
Navy officials declined to comment on the source of the attack. “The nature and extent of the intrusion are operational issues and I can’t discuss them further,” said Cmdr. Doug Gabos, spokesman for Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command, which ordered the shutdown. The college’s site remains down pending an investigation.
| We're bringing a new server online -- should be up today or Monday. I made the suggestion that they install Linux or Solaris or some other *nix on it and the network powers that be looked at me like I was stoopid. As far as I know, and I know better and in more detail than I did when we were running Windoze, the worst we've been hit with has been the occasional DoS. |
The attack was an insolated incident and has not affected other parts of DOD, Gabos said.
| They probe continually. I ban Chinamen from our server near daily. |
Meanwhile, the collegeÂ’s systems have been removed from DODÂ’s Global Information Grid so that investigators can examine the extent of the intrusion and upgrade firewalls and other security measures, he said.
| With Linux, Google, and four or five Rantburg readers they could make that site a lot more secure. |
According to a news report, Chinese hackers are responsible for the attack.
| They're military exercises. |
One professor told his class Nov. 27 that they took down the entire college network, the report states. There is no official confirmation that the attacks on the college networks came from China.
| It was there or Korea. The crap we throw out from Europe and Russia and even the Gulf are pretty much all spammers. And they're outnumbered two or three to one by the Chinese. |
The college will probably have to replace all the computers affected by the attack, Paller said. “That’s the only confidence-building measure step you can take,” he said. “When very professional people get through your defenses, their ability to hide is much greater than your ability to find them.” The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security replaced hundreds of computers after recent network attacks. The bureau is responsible for deciding which technologies should be available for export to countries such as China. Chinese attacks on DOD systems are far more widespread than is publicly known, Paller said, but almost all attacks remain classified. “The problem is thousands of times bigger than what you hear,” he said.
| The Chinese attacks against all computers represents a problem more widespread than is publicly known. |
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