The cyber attack has been detected into the computer systems of the two most important military and science labs over the last several weeks.

The attack has been launched on Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This attack might compromised the information (social security numbers, date of birth) of thousands of visitors. From previous three years, almost 3 thousand researchers visited these labs.

The attack is described as "sophisticated cyber attack". The attack was conducted through seven phishing emails [1] with malicious attachments, all of which at first glance appeared legitimate. The attachment is supposed to be the Trojans[2] .

The both labs are doing top-secret work in U.S. The ORNL is a science lab having world's fastest supercomputers and used in homeland security and military research. Los Alamos operates in nuclear weapons research.

Los Alamos suffered a sequence of embarrassing breaches its history. In August of this year, it was revealed that the lab had released sensitive nuclear research data by email, while in 2006 a drug dealer was allegedly found with a USB stick containing data on nuclear weapons tests. Two years earlier, the lab was accused of having lost hard disks.

Food For Thought
U.S military labs are not secured and working with a big security loopholes. However, U.S Govt. is continuously threatening Pakistan that nuclear weapons are not in safe hands. American Govt. (Big hypocrite) who is unable to even save a nuclear data of its own security labs. Our Govt. should open its eyes, its time to kick back the U.S propaganda against Islamic countries and especially against Pakistan.
Its time to memorize them that they are unable to safe their own laboratories. Its time that our media should propagate this news as much as possible especially on international transmission with 24/7 hours of reporting. Our media can fight against their propaganda.
It is a media war. Our media should seek every week point against the countries, which are trying to threat Pakistan. We can also win this war. We have 55 channels. Where are they and what is their purpose?

Source:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Technology/Story?id=3966047&page=2

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140390-c,hackers/article.html

1. Phishing emails:
email phishing is an attempt to criminally acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay, PayPal and online banks are common targets. Email or instant messaging typically carries out Phishing. (definition from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing)

2. Trojans:
An apparently useful and innocent program (but not a virus) containing additional hidden code which allows the unauthorized collection, exploitation, falsification, or destruction of data. Once it entered, it works as backdoor of the system and continuously sends information back to the hacker. (definition from: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/compsecurity/glossary.html)