GIs' Medical Records Cracked Wired News Report 2:40 p.m. 25.Sep.98.PDT The US Department of Defense reported this week that crackers penetrated military Web sites last year and altered soldiers' medical files. According to a report in Federal Computer Week, the crackers changed blood types in the soldiers' records, information that is critical in performing transfusions during battle. Art Money, a senior Defense Department official, said that the DoD experiences "a cyberattack 60 times a week." As a result, Money told a meeting of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, the Defense Department has developed a more restrictive security policy on the type of information posted on unclassified Web sites connected to the Internet. A former member of Milw0rm -- a cracking group that broke into an Indian research lab's Web site this year - said security holes in military computer systems makes cracking relatively easy. In a recent interview in Internet Relay Chat, the hacker, who goes by the name t3k-9, rattled off a list of vulnerable US government Web sites, adding, "They don't pay enough for computer people -- you get $50,000 for a $150,000 job." -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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