[ISN] Hacking may cost Naperville more than $600,000

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:26:58 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121016/news/710169607/

By Justin Kmitch
Daily Herald
10/17/2012

Hackers who recently compromised the security of Naperville’s website, 
email and other online services not only put the city into an 
informational black hole but also a financial black hole.

City council members on Tuesday approved spending as much as $673,000 to 
acquire network security hardware and software, computer servers, and 
associated services necessary to bring the city back online after more 
than two weeks offline.

The noncompetitive bid from Canadian-based N-Dimensions computer 
consultant includes $395,000 for hardware for security protection and 
hacker detection, $221,000 for consulting fees for network intrusion 
identification and analysis and $57,000 for a consultant for network 
restoration.

The city has already spent $92,000 for work done in the days following 
the Oct. 2 collapse.

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