FBI E-mail Clobbered After Virus
There has an increase in lot of Email hacking and fake antivirus. All or most of the computer users are being affected by the same. Any Online Marketing Service companies are facing this company. Not only Online Marketing Services, but also other departments and other organizations in the country are getting affected. Reading this article you will understand the above statement
A virus disrupted Web-based e-mail services at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation recently
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had confirmed that it had been forced to shut down due its Internet-facing some unclassified network, but then they disputed a report that the incident had left the agency unable to e-mail counterparts. They had confirmed that Within 48 hours of identifying the issue e-mail traffic will be largely restored to the external, unclassified network
Then the FBI agents can send e-mail on the agency’s more secure internal network or through BlackBerry, but many consumers use this unclassified network to send messages through a Web-based e-mail system this was told by a source known about the situation. That particular webmail service was down throughout the week and continued to be unavailable for some users.
The FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said in an e-mail message that
“We can e-mail to anyone and [we] have Internet access. We also have a secure e-mail system that connects all 400+ offices around the country and 60 offices overseas
The FBI did not provide details on the security of the incident that happened, But somehow it looks as if the hackers may have used maliciously encoded file attachments to hack into the FBI’s network. In its statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said they started to block users from sending or receiving any kind of attachments on the unclassified network. The spokesman also said that “to give our technicians time to scan all the attachments that came into the e-mail system to make sure we have identified and mitigated all threats to the network.”
Also malicious attachments are a constant security threat for most of the computer users.
Microsoft that attackers are sending malicious QuickTime media files to victims, exploiting an unpatched flaw in Apple’s media format, in order to install malicious software on Windows systems.
This particular news of the FBI’s webmail outage was first reported by a famous magazine / Newspaper. Although other news outlets had reported last week that the FBI had been hit by the same virus that felled Windows systems within the U.S. Marshals.