The Defense Department took as many as 1,500 computers off line because of a cyber attack, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
\nFew details were released about the attack, which happened Wednesday, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the computer systems would be working again soon.<\/p>\n
Gates said the Pentagon sees hundreds of attacks a day, and this one had no adverse impact on department operations. Employees whose computers were affected could still use their handheld BlackBerries.<\/p>\n
During a press briefing Gates said: “We obviously have redundant systems in place. … There will be some administrative disruptions and personal inconveniences.”<\/p>\n
He said the Pentagon shut the computers down when a penetration of the system was detected, and the cause is still being investigated.
\nWhen asked if his own e-mail account was affected, Gates said: “I don’t do e-mail. I’m a very low-tech person.”<\/p>\n
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler, a Pentagon spokesman, said Defense Department systems are probed every day by a wide variety of attacks.<\/p>\n
“The nature of the threat is large and diverse, and includes recreational hackers, self-styled cyber-vigilantes, various groups with nationalistic or ideological agendas, transnational actors and nation-states,” Peppler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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