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Jarrell recounted events that transpired beginning in July at his department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which handles the sometimes thorny topic of export controls.
He also suggested that even unclassified networks can contain "sensitive" data.Īlso encountering pointed questions from the handful of politicians present Thursday was Dave Jarrell, manager of the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Protection Program. Because government auditors have determined that the State Department lacks a complete inventory of its computer systems, "how can you be certain your classified networks aren't touching your unclassified networks, and can you really know hackers have only accessed unclassified networks?" Langevin asked. Some politicians targeted Reid's assurances that the attacks only affected "unclassified" systems.
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(Microsoft ultimately released the new patch in August.) All the affected systems were brought back up and running by July, and the department has not encountered further troubles, Reid said.
Realizing that Microsoft would not be able to issue a fix as speedily as necessary, the department developed a temporary "wrapper" designed to protect the systems from continued exploits, Reid said.
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In the process of analyzing that malicious code, analysts also discovered another previously unknown hole in the Windows operating system that lacked a security patch. The agency's intrusion detection system "immediately" detected the flaw and later discovered additional breaches on its systems in other Asian outposts and at its Washington headquarters, Reid said.
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An employee at an office in the East Asia Pacific region opened an e-mail message that contained what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft Word document of a congressional speech-but when opened, actually unleashed malicious code that allowed the intruder backdoor access to the State Department's network.
The State Department troubles began in May, said Donald Reid, senior coordinator for security infrastructure for the agency's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. One of the main purposes of the hearing was to allow officials at the State and Commerce departments to give the first complete public accounts of the cyberattacks since news reports brought the incidents to light several months ago. Pitfalls ranged from failing to replace well-known vendor-supplied passwords on systems to not encrypting sensitive information to not creating adequate audit logs to track activity on their systems, according to a new GAO report (PDF) he summarized at the hearing. Indeed, 21 of 24 major federal agencies had weak or deficient information security controls in place during the last fiscal year, according to audit reports, said Gregory Wilshusen, director of information security issues for the Government Accountability Office.
"We don't know what information has been stolen." James Langevin (D-R.I.) said at an afternoon hearing here. "We don't know who's inside our networks," subcommittee chairman Rep. They also questioned agency representatives on whether they could truly guarantee that sensitive information hadn't been accessed or copied. House of Representatives cybersecurity subcommittee said they weren't confident that the computer systems at bureaus within the State and Commerce departments were adequately secured and scrubbed of backdoors that could allow cybercrooks to re-enter. WASHINGTON-As new details emerged about cyberattacks against networks at the State and Commerce departments last year, politicians on Thursday said they're concerned many federal agencies are ill-prepared to fend off such intrusions.