Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
www.bbc.co.uk
Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
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Why the military doesn't filter emails being sent to an unfriendly foreign nation is beyond me. My company would restrict my account if I began emailing a random .ml domain with attatchments.
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I'm assuming this doesn't involve intra-military emails, because that would be trivial to prevent. It's probably because of people sending from another domain. Like if maverick@gmail.com is sending an email to iceman@navy.mil, but he mistypes the .mil part because he is using his iPhone while riding his motorcycle with a girl on the back.
A more realistic example would be ceo@lockheed.com sending an email to commander@af.mil to discuss some upcoming meeting about a new aircraft contract.
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I'm a little confused about a comment in the article that says the Mali military will be taking over the .ml domain on Monday. Is the country of Mali going to start using a different domain next week?
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I read it as the military is taking it over and controlling the internet/domain over there and not that .ml will only be for mali military.
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Lmao this is such a clown show. As a infosec professional I would have been fired so long ago in the private sector for allowing stupidity to get this far with regards to critical data leakage. As another user pointed out, we have had the technology for decades to prevent this kind of thing, but apparently the geriatrics at the DOD haven't figured it out yet. Bunch of clowns with their CEH looking at each other for instruction.
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Hopefully that mistake was not too expensive..
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It's "mail", not "mali", ya military dummies! /jk
I don't even have a job, but I can definitely proofread!
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I’m confused, so he identifies this problem ten years ago but only just now raised an alarm as his contract was due to be up on Monday?