U.S' Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) encountered a security breach the second one from the time of year 2007 when phishing e-mails fooled employees thus leading to many of its PCs getting hacked. The Register published this in news on April 19, 2011.
Reportedly, the phony phishing e-mails contained a web-link when they first infiltrated computers of the laboratory on April 7, 2011 and abused one critical security flaw within Internet Explorer which Microsoft patched lately. The vulnerability was exactly the one with which a security investigator won $15,000 as prize during a just concluded hacking contest namely Pwn2Own.
Stated Thom Mason Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the laboratory thought it right to shutdown its Internet connection so no data could go out from its systems as the infected computer was quarantined and cleaned up. Knoxnews.com published this on April 19, 2011.
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