http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924915 JoongAng Daily August 21, 2010 Leaked military information is becoming a common occurrence here in large part because of a lack of security awareness among defense officials, despite the increasing severity of cyber attacks at the hands of North Korean hackers. Some senior defense officials have lost sensitive and classified information after transferring files to USB drives - even though the military prohibits the use of such technology to store data because it can easily be stolen. Strong disciplinary measures are needed to ratchet up security awareness among defense officials. According to a Defense Security Command report to the National Assembly, the number of military officials punished for violating security codes and leaking - both intentionally and accidentally - confidential military information has been increasing sharply every year. The number was 510 in 2005 and rose to 879 in 2006, 965 in 2007, 1,164 in 2008, 1,512 in 2009 and 886 through the first six months of this year. There have been some serious cases this year as well. The computers of 13 soldiers stationed at one particular base were hacked from January to March, exposing 1,715 files. [...] 5B _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Tue Aug 24 2010 - 22:37:48 PDT
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