The Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency in the US Department of Commerce that promotes economic development in regions of the US suffering low growth, low employment, and other economic problems. In December 2011, the Department of Homeland Security notified both the EDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there was a potential malware infection within the two agencies' systems.
The NOAA isolated and cleaned up the problem within a few weeks.
The EDA, however, responded by cutting its systems off from the rest of the world -- disabling its enterprise email system and leaving its regional offices no way of accessing centrally-held databases.
By: Peter Bright,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/09/us-agency-overreacts-virus
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