Dept. of Commerce Hack Attack

Posted on by Peter Hesse

SecurityFocus is reporting that online attackers are hitting the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The U.S. Department of Commerce took hundreds of computers offline following a series of attacks aimed at federal employees’ computer accounts by online thieves that appear to be based in China, according to media reports published on Monday.

Kind of disappointing, considering NIST is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, and NIST has brought us the XP Security Guides and lots of other special publications. Good thing they also wrote SP 800-61, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide…

One thought on “Dept. of Commerce Hack Attack”

  1. Peter says:
    October 11, 2006 at 1:17 pm

    Yikes. Check out Bruce Schneier’s posting about this.

    Manufacturers of hardware crypto devices—mass-market software is exempted—must submit detailed design information to BIS [the part of the commerce dept. which was targeted] in order to get an export license. There’s a lot of detailed information on crypto products in the BIS computers.

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