Today it was reported that very sophisticated Russian hackers had breached the White House and State Department's computer systems in an attempt to commandeer classified US information, it seems, for the Russian government.
According to a high ranking official the hackers were not successful in getting into the classified systems and the very sensitive information they hold. This is a scary situation when it's seemingly this easy to get into the most powerful man in the free world's home system. If these hackers can do this and make the geniuses that run the government network security areas look like it's their first day on the job, then how does the private sector have much hope.
The same thing seems to be happening from China as well when it comes to trying to get into our country's private computer databases and cherry pick specific information that could damage our economy and bruise our egos. We aren't as safe as we thought we were and without extreme measures to squash these individuals this will continue to happen as it did not long after the first attack. The same hackers were able to roam around for upwards of a month in State Department network systems.
There are good hackers out there that fight every day against foreign hackers and I'm glad they are working for us because we are only heading into a more and more virtual world that will continue to bring security breach attacks on our government and us as individual Americans.
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