Penetrate stop e-mail to American foreign system

Penetrate stop e-mail to American foreign system

The US State Department has taken the unprecedented step yesterday to suspend its e-mail the entire system is not secret, in order to allow the opportunity for technicians to repair the damage from a possible attack by Internet hackers.

And the transfer of the website of the newspaper "USA Today" US senior official at the Foreign Ministry as saying that he has been the discovery of "an exciting activity for concern" in the system in a similar time about the incident which targeted the White House, a network of non-confidential information.

The White House had announced in late October / October to penetrate the network information is confidential, and the effect that some users separation has temporarily from the network, but did not record any damages in the network or systems, according to officials, as any indicator does not appear, then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was affected.

But since the date of the attack reported that several US government agencies-including the US Postal Service and the Department of Meteorology Aloutnah- from exposure to similar attacks.

In the past week, the Post Office announced that hackers stole sensitive personal information in what is a major security breach process, as has been the seizure of information about some of the customers as well, along with payment systems penetrate the body in the offices and on the Internet, where customers pay for services.

The spokesman said the body at the time that the break included about eight hundred thousand people paid from the agency, including employees and contractors, and is currently working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other security agencies to investigate the matter.

The official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not affected by any of the ministry's underground networks of systems, but with that said it decided to close its e-mail service in the world on Friday evening in conducting planned to separate some of the systems connected to the Internet to make security improvements to network her computer non-confidential.

But reports Sunday that there was no evidence that a hacker penetrated security protection system in some aspects related to non-confidential electronic communications, was quoted by the Washington Post newspaper sources that suspicions about hackers working for the Russian government.

Official in the US State confirmed that the ministry expects to return all of their systems to work on a regular basis in the near future, but will not address to talk about the responsible for this breakthrough.

And the analyst and expert in networking security in Forrester Research Inc., Rick Holland ndash; according to "USA Today" - that the recent wave of attacks "paint some concerns relating to networking security in light of the budget difficult conditions on the agencies and the Ministry of Defense," pointing out that "there heavy attacks exposed those networks, it is very difficult in the best of circumstances attempt to prevent it

Source: Ao.os.oa Today, German