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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:26 AM Aug 2012

Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn At Work

http://www.businessinsider.com/missile-defense-staff-told-to-stop-watching-porn-at-work-2012-8



The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) warned its employees and contractors to stop watching and downloading porn on government computers, Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg reports.

Executive Director John James Jr. circulated a memo on July 27 that "there have been instances of employees and contractors accessing websites, or transmitting messages, containing pornographic or sexually explicit images.”

The MDA has a proposed 2013 budget of $7.7 billion.

A government cybersecurity specialist told Bloomberg that criminals and foreign intelligence services use viruses embedded in pornographic websites to gain access to data from government and corporate computer networks.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/missile-defense-staff-told-to-stop-watching-porn-at-work-2012-8#ixzz22OJFe9LI
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Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn At Work (Original Post) xchrom Aug 2012 OP
And that includes exploding missiles BeyondGeography Aug 2012 #1
+1,000 Everything they do is porn. Scuba Aug 2012 #3
Unprotected sects: Church websites more likely to have viruses Ian David Aug 2012 #2
Sounds to me borelord Aug 2012 #4
killing machines & devices are so sexy marions ghost Aug 2012 #5
They need to concentrate on those heat seeking moisture missiles. D'OH! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #6
Bwahahahahahahaha Marrah_G Aug 2012 #7
That's what I thought. Nt xchrom Aug 2012 #8

Ian David

(69,059 posts)
2. Unprotected sects: Church websites more likely to have viruses
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:35 AM
Aug 2012

As with herpes, one of the peripheral embarrassments of contracting a computer virus is that everyone has a pretty good idea of what you were up to when you got it. Oh sure, it's possible you just chastely pecked a misleading email link. But odds are you picked it up because you were dallying on one of those shady, fly-by-night websites that people visit when they're seeking fulfillment. You know — religious sites.

What's that? Church blogs and Christian youth forums aren't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of scareware, malware, worms and Trojan horses? They should be. In its latest annual Internet security threat report, Symantec, the maker of Norton AntiVirus software, found that "religious and ideological sites" have far surpassed pornographic websites as targets for criminal hackers. According to the company you're now three times as likely to encounter malware — insidious software that can steal your data, pelt you with spam, or enslave your machine in a botnet — on your local church blog as you are on a porn site.

The explanation is straightforward: The entrepreneurs who run adult websites are old hands at Web security, and they've long since learned to use protection. Those who build and host church websites, by contrast, may have the best intentions, but they tend to be naive and inexperienced. For hackers, that makes them easy prey.

Take Stephen Morrissey, a Pittsburgh-area e-commerce architect who moonlights as a Web developer for churches looking to establish an online presence. He admits he didn't have the first clue about Web security when he volunteered to build a website for his mother's small church in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. three years ago. He had designed simple, static Web pages before, but for the church he used a popular, freely available scripting language called PHP to add a few interactive elements.

More:
http://www.eagletribune.com/worldnational/x1968178703/Unprotected-sects-Church-websites-more-likely-to-have-viruses

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