Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A band of vandals is taking credit for doxxing some 1,400 American military and government personnel. Identifying themselves as the Islamic State’s “hacking division,” the group is telling its followers to “act and kill” the infidels. That threat rings somewhat hollow — because ISIS is bad at hacking. This is at least the third time this year that ISIS has claimed to have hacked into government servers andextract the personal details of United States officials. “Hack” is a misleading verb, though, because in each of those instances, the terrorists didn’t exactly compromise America’s information security fortress. Either the “hacked” information was already public, or apparently completely fabricated. It would be more appropriate to describe this type of cyber warfare by saying something like “ISIS Googled military people” or “ISIS made up fake Gmail passwords for NASA officials.” That’s likely what really happened. Ranking military officers revealed as much in their response to this latest ISIS non-hack. “This is the second or third time they have claimed that and the first two times I’ll tell you, whatever lists they got were not taken by any cyber attack,” General Ray Odierno, the Army’s chief of staff, said after records were made public […]
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