Hackers Hit Our Defenders

This is a little troublesome; hackers have hit the publishers of the defense newspapers. You know, those publications like The Army Times where I use to go look up the cut-off scores every month to see if I had been promoted.

With information like that, these publications get a lot of readers.

The hackers hit on June 7th. They took their subscriber information; things like user name and password, first and last name, email address, and service information (like rank, branch, duty status, etc.)

What may happen next is our defenders are going to start receiving emails that look like they are coming from the publisher. Of course these will be fake and if the soldier, sailor, air man or marine click on a link in that email their computer will become infected with some kind of Trojan or other malicious software.

This is a case where our government needs to get involved. Find whoever stole this information and send them to boot camp for retraining.

I don’t care if hackers hit the CIA’s site with such force that it takes their public website off line for a few hours. I don’t really care that account holders had money taken from their Chase accounts. I do take offense when they target the men and women standing the wall.

http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2011/06/30/recent-hacker-attack-on-gannett-websites-targeted-military-personnel.aspx