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Canada's Federal Government Targeted in "Cyberattack"

A couple of news outlets are reporting that a new attack which has resulted in unauthorized access to "highly classified federal information in two key departments". There isn't much to the story at this point, other than it appears that some lock-down of Internet services has taken place at the affected agencies, and some analyst's reports seem to point the finger at China. The real story here is that the storyline starts "An unprecedented cyberattack..." where it would appear by the details released so far, that this is simply another routine spear-fishing attack targeting a valued target. Some of the scarce technical details regarding the attack include: "The hackers apparently managed to take control of computers in the offices of senior government executives as part of a scheme to steal the key passwords.." "Canadian government cybersecurity officials immediately shut down all internet access at the Finance Department and the Treasury Boa