Cyber Attack On DoD Linked To Russia, (FNC)…Jennifer Griffin, Dec 10, 2008.
Fox News has learned that the cyber attack on the U.S. military’s classified information network has been traced to a front company run by former Russian FSB or KGB spies. The attack led the Pentagon to ban the use of all thumb drives because that is how the worm got into the classified military network.
The intrusion was discovered, we’ve learned, by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. The attack came through the local internet service provider which the Afghans, under U.S. supervision, contracted out to this front company run by former Russian spies. The U.S. military relies on this internet service provider. Today, Michael Chertoff warned the Russians had already used cyber warfare in Georgia.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF [Homeland Security Secretary]: There was a preceding effort at denial of service or wave of denial of service attacks by, let us say, sympathizers to the Russian side of the dispute that was a prelude and an adjunct to the military attack where Russian troops entered Georgia.
GRIFFIN: Chertoff added the U.S. needs a doctrine to decide when a cyber attack is an act of war, a view echoed by the deputy defense secretary.
GORDON ENGLAND [Deputy Defense Secretary]: This larger future threat will necessarily require DOD to change its thinking and its planning, much like the first use of gun powder changed the nature of warfare centuries ago.
GRIFFIN: Russia has denied any involvement in this attack, and some here in the Pentagon are concerned that those former Russian spies may have been working for someone else. Brit?
HUME: All right, Jennifer, thank you.
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