APC Australia

At-work porn habit puts malware on US Government network

Extensive NSFW browser history responsibl­e for secure network breach.

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One US Government official’s at-work porn habit is believed to be responsibl­e for malware found on a secured government network. An audit of the US Geological Survey network at a South Dakota satellite imaging facility, found that somewhere amongst the thousands of porn pages visited by an unnamed employee, malware had managed to download itself onto a work laptop, before migrating to the network. A number of the images were downloaded to the government-issued computer before being saved on an unauthoris­ed USB and a personal Android device – both of which are believed to also be infected with the malware.

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