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Two US military labs hit … again

By ⋅ December 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Los Alamos labs is out to prove that even with the best end user education, people will fall for spear phishing attacks.  Both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have fallen prey to a series of attacks that were apparently started with a wave of phishing emails containing trojans.  The attack appears to have targeted the labs specifically.

Los Alamos is the same lab that had problems a couple of years ago with data being found at the site of an employee’s drug dealer and lost a number of hard drives before this.  I want to think that a place that’s doing much of the nuclear weapons testing in the US would have much tighter security than this, but the truth is I’m not surprised.  I hear from friends who are in similar environments who say that quite often researchers ability to work trumps security concerns, even when there’s a clear danger associated with the actions.  And if the security personnel at a critical research facility like LANL can’t get security to trump research, how are we going to do it in the corporate world where profits are the main loss, not sensitive government research?

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