{"id":244,"date":"2011-07-20T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:05:41","slug":"german-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"German Incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/europe\/news\/article_1651622.php\/Officials-hackers-were-in-German-police-computers-for-months\">According to a recent report<\/a>, German federal law enforcement computer networks were compromised for nearly a year before the intrusion was noticed. The attackers, who call themselves the &#8220;No Name Crew&#8221;, used that time to gather tremendous amounts of privileged information on government and law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>Many companies are still using the &#8220;hard shell, chewy center&#8221; model of computer security &#8211; lock down the perimeter so that nobody can get through. As the French discovered with the Maginot Line, that&#8217;s not a valid means of defense. Any network of noticeable size has compromised machines on it; that&#8217;s just a fact of life these days. Do you have the internal controls in place to find and limit the access of these machines?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent report, German federal law enforcement computer networks were compromised for nearly a year before the intrusion was noticed. The attackers, who call themselves the &#8220;No Name Crew&#8221;, used that time to gather tremendous amounts of privileged information on government and law enforcement operations. Many companies are still using the &#8220;hard shell, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}