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Current Affairs, cyber attack

Today’s Cybernews

The AFP reports that, in what has to be one of the worst cyberattacks of all time, hackers have broken into an old United Nations' server and "swiped outdated account and password information."

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InformationWeek Government reports that US CyberCommand has "successfully completed its first major exercise in its mission to protect the Department of Defense (DOD) from cyber attacks."

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Kim Zetter writes for Wired.com on the "comedy of errors" that led to the false report of a cyberattack on our most beloved water pump.  The article explains the journey of the contractor who remotely accessed the plant from Russia, and how some better communication could have likely averted this entire episode.

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Gregg Keizer writes for ComputerWorld on how those behind Duqu have been meticulously scrubbing all of the servers used for their operations (so that no information is left behind for authorities). 

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