'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command

FanJ · May 11, 2024

'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command
The Register - Fri 10 May 2024
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/dod_usb_attack/

RSAC A malware-laced USB stick, inserted into a military laptop at a base in Afghanistan in 2008, led to what has been called the worst military breach in US history, and to the creation of the US Cyber Command.

The laptop was attached to the Department of Defense's Central Command network and the malware – which had been planted by suspected Russian cyber spies – soon infected other DoD systems, both classified and unclassified.

"These are the warfighting networks that we're using for US Central Command," recalled retired Army general Paul Nakasone, who spent about six years as commander of US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.

The Pentagon saw this as a wake-up call that it needed to prepare for cyberspace being used as a battlefield, and started Operation Buckshot Yankee to rid the Department of Defense networks of the malware – a process that took over a year.

Workers in high-vis jackets standing at monitors in a factory or some form of critical infrastructure
America's enemies targeting US critical infrastructure should be 'wake-up call'
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At the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday the four individuals tasked with developing this battle plan for the digital era reunited on stage for the first time in 15 years to talk about building US Cyber Command from the ground up.
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PS:
Spotlight on RSA
https://www.theregister.com/special_features/spotlight_on_rsa/

Over the last 33 years the RSA conference has grown from a few security geeks getting together to one of the largest security conferences in the world, attracting those who need to know what to invest in next to keep networks secure.
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