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February 9, 2010
Swedish intelligence agency hit by IT-attack
Published: 4 Nov 09 07:44 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23058/20091104/
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A cyber attack knocked out the website of a Swedish intelligence agency on Monday, just days after several Swedish media outlets and the police were hit by similar attacks.
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“It started on Monday afternoon. When we noticed the attack we shut down the site ourselves. Since then we’ve had technicians working to clean out the system so we could start to use the site again on Tuesday,” said FRA spokesperson Anni Bölenius to the TT news agency.
Nevertheless, FRA’s home page continued to be plagued by disturbances well into Tuesday night.
Bölenius emphasized that agency’s signals intelligence operations weren’t compromised by the attack.
“An intrusion is basically impossible to carry out against us. This doesn’t impact our operations,” she said.
While FRA’s primary mission is to help other government agencies avoid cyber attacks, Bölenius denied that the attack against FRA constituted an embarrassment for the agency.
“No, it’s not the least bit embarrassing. DoS attacks are almost impossible to defend against,” she told TT.
The agency’s chief spokesperson warned that such attacks are happening with increasing frequency.
“Lately we’ve seen this type of IT attack increase and there are many who’ve been affected. It’s hard to defend oneself against attacks of this sort which involve overwhelming a website,” said FRA head spokesperson Jan Donnér in a statement.
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THE U.N. PLAN TO TAKE OVER THE INTERNET
http://www.contenderministries.org/UN/wsis.php
Seriously this is beyond a joke. We are talking here about Sweden's security aparatus. This needs to sorted out and fast.
Whoever is in charge of IT in the FRA, needs to be questioned as to who they are actually working for, as this was completely preventable and is the duty of the IT department to prevent.
@ Ozpot,
Please keep the conspiracy theories for a conversation with a psychiatrist.
For your information, Sweden and all other European countries are not in the USA. The Local is based in Europe, not the USA.
We are in Europe, not the USA. Please remember that.
http://www.infowars.com/uk-follows-us-with-cyber-security-agency/
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Ahhh group therapy now that feels better..
There probably has been attempts at the real stuff and there will never be a word written about it to the public.