{"id":14712,"date":"2010-08-26T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-26T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:08:00","slug":"us-goverment-computers-attacked-with-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/14712-us-goverment-computers-attacked-with-flash-drive.html","title":{"rendered":"US Goverment computers attacked with flash drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previously classified incident took place in 2008 in the Middle East and was disclosed in a magazine article by Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn and released by the Pentagon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon did not say what nation&#8217;s spy agency was involved.<\/p>\n<p>He said a &#8220;malicious code&#8221; on the flash drive spread undetected on both classified and unclassified Pentagon systems, &#8220;establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead,&#8221; for stealing military secrets.<\/p>\n<p>He did not say what, if any, information was taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/262096-US-Govt.-PCs-attacked-with-flash-drive\" target=\"_self\" title=\"US Goverment computers attacked with flash drive\"><strong>US Goverment computers attacked with flash drive<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon says a foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Defense Department computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}