It’s okay, it’s just a cyber war to help train new cadets.

For four days in late April, the National Security Agency — the nation’s most secretive repository of spooks, snoops and electronic eavesdroppers — directed coordinated assaults on custom-built networks at seven of the nation’s military academies, including West Point, the Army university 50 miles north of New York City.

The SQL [structured query language] inserts that came earlier were just pablum intended to lull the Army cadets into a false sense of security. But then the bad guys unleashed a stealthy kernel-level rootkit that burrowed into one workstation, started scraping data and “calling home.”

The full article can be read over at WiRED, I found it rather interesting. And one thing is for sure, I wouldn’t want to go against the NSA. Crazy h4×0rz got into West Point, dropped bombs, used hijackers, and stole data. So, they broke through approx. 3 firewalls, and then 1 superwtf firewall (they use Cisco products, btw).

Anyways, check out the full article here, and then come back here to discuss it.

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