Federal Employee Downloaded 9,000 Pages of Porn, Infecting Network with Russian Malware
A U.S. Interior Department network was infected with Russian malware because an employee downloaded 9,000 pages of pornography on his laptop, an Inspector General (IG) report [1] reveals.
The IG investigation was launched when a routine internet security audit discovered “suspicious internet traffic†on a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center network – from a Soviet Union IP address:
“The Office of Inspector General investigated suspicious internet traffic discovered during an IT security audit of the computer network at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center satellite imaging facility in Sioux Falls, SD.
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