Russian hackers have reportedly breached the systems computers of the White House. As it states CNN, managed to gain access to President Obama's non-public program.
US officials say it was one of the most advanced cyber attacks ever made against government networks in the country.
The White House for its part reports that the hackers managed to access only unclassified information, and that the attack has been moderated.
Such a statement could very well be made only to reassure the public. but according to the video we publish below, maybe the announcement of the White House is correct.
The alarming thing is that the attack began months before when hackers managed to access the State Department's systems with a simple phishing attack.
A government employee allegedly clicked on a fake link that came with an email and contained in the attachments archives malicious λογισμικό. Το malware επέτρεψε στους επιτιθέμενους να διεισδύσουν στο network of the thousands of State Department computers with great ease. It is no coincidence that security experts are more concerned about the factor of human error and not so much about the systems themselves.
In the following video, Obama's National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, reports that the White House uses a separate network to distribute classified information.
In this case, we can say that governments, secret services, and large companies actually use different networks for handling sensitive information.
Watch the CNN video
