http://www.endpoint-security.info/2008/02/05/usb-with-nato-sensitive-data-found-in-swedish-library/ Endpoint Security in the News. Learn to protect your data by controlling removable storage devices. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:29:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.endpoint-security.info/2008/02/05/usb-with-nato-sensitive-data-found-in-swedish-library/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Agent Smith Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:29:30 +0000 http://www.endpoint-security.info/2008/02/05/usb-with-nato-sensitive-data-found-in-swedish-library/#comment-200 Uncle B, you are right, Linux is a lot safer. But given the number of past similar breaches, the existing endpoint security technology, the in-place security policies and budgets, I still cannot understand how military networks and devices are still so grossly exposed to attacks. The learning process would take a while and cost a lot if they decided to switch to Linux every computer they own. In the mean time, why not secure the machines and devices you're already using? i'm sure they have enough experts to tell them how to do it. Uncle B, you are right, Linux is a lot safer. But given the number of past similar breaches, the existing endpoint security technology, the in-place security policies and budgets, I still cannot understand how military networks and devices are still so grossly exposed to attacks. The learning process would take a while and cost a lot if they decided to switch to Linux every computer they own. In the mean time, why not secure the machines and devices you’re already using? i’m sure they have enough experts to tell them how to do it.

]]> http://www.endpoint-security.info/2008/02/05/usb-with-nato-sensitive-data-found-in-swedish-library/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Uncle B Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:14:16 +0000 http://www.endpoint-security.info/2008/02/05/usb-with-nato-sensitive-data-found-in-swedish-library/#comment-199 Military should usr Ubuntu, or other Linux OS and have complete control over the code in their machines at all times! It is well known that popular American commercial software is unsafe and leaks can be foisted on any computer or computer system using them by even high school students, and "Hackers" pages abound on the web for these systems - Linux systems offer the open concept, where individual machine changes rendering them unhackable. encoding whole systems is possible and for sensitive military material, the machines must be altered in such a way as to render sloppy and careless data handling fruitless unless codes are known, altered machines available! The idea of top military information being typed into a "Word" document is laughable, and the Military using unscrambled computers is fun, but ludicrous! Military should usr Ubuntu, or other Linux OS and have complete control over the code in their machines at all times! It is well known that popular American commercial software is unsafe and leaks can be foisted on any computer or computer system using them by even high school students, and “Hackers” pages abound on the web for these systems – Linux systems offer the open concept, where individual machine changes rendering them unhackable. encoding whole systems is possible and for sensitive military material, the machines must be altered in such a way as to render sloppy and careless data handling fruitless unless codes are known, altered machines available! The idea of top military information being typed into a “Word” document is laughable, and the Military using unscrambled computers is fun, but ludicrous!

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