Hackers May Have Stolen Emails Obama

Hackers would have received last year in an attack on an unclassified system from the White House to access e-mails of US President Barack Obama. That allow government officials across the New York Times to know. The classified systems of the White House, including the servers that Obama used to communicate via his BlackBerry, would not be cracked.

Knew the attackers to gain access to an email archive of people inside the White House, with whom Obama communicates regularly. From these accounts, reports were taken by the US president had sent and received, according to the officials who were familiar with the investigation into the burglary.

How many emails were captured would not tell them, and the sensitivity of the content. The email account of Obama himself would not have been hacked. According to the New York Times, the severity of the break for months are known to officials.Who exactly is behind the attack is unknown, but the US government looks at Russia.

Network White House Probably Hacked Phishing Mail

An unclassified network of the White House last year probably hacked by a phishing email, so let anonymous government officials across CNN know. In the attack were the attackers access to sensitive information, such as the planning of President Obama.

While this information is not classified according to the officials who would still be valuable for foreign intelligence services.To the White House to attack the attackers would first the Ministry of Interior have attacked. The officials say that a hacked email account from the ministry was used to send a phishing email to the White House. Details about this email, as used malware or exploits, are not given. According to Ben Rhodes, the national security adviser to Obama, there are no classified hacked systems in the attack.

NSA Director: US Must Invest In Cyber Attacks

The head of the US Cyber ​​Command and the NSA has a Senate committee announced that the US needs to invest more in the operation of cyber attacks, to deter as other countries. According to Michael Rogers, there is a tipping point .

"The US must consider how we our ability to expand the offensive side," Rogers told, so reports the New York Times.According to the NSA director and head of the Cyber ​​Command scares the current inadequate level off. Raising higher "cyber walls" is also never enough he continued. "We need to expand our ability to provide policy makers and operational commanders a wider choice of options. Because ultimately only a defensive reactive strategy both shows as many resources costs."

According to Rogers, President Obama has not yet decided to give him the authority to carry out cyber attacks. Policymakers would still not convinced that it is time, the cyber commander continued. "We need to increase the comfort and the knowledge of our policy makers with the properties that we have and what we can do."