You would think the US Government had the top security on their networks. Unfortunately there are too many locations, too many networks, and too much of a “this won’t happen to us” attitude. Just 2 locations are as follows, and sadly, it happens more frequently than one would think.
Los Alamos National Laboratory – A memo sent to LANL employees that was subsequently leaked to the public states that “malicious and determined hackers have accessed the Lab’s unclassified Yellow Network and removed a significant amount of unclassified material.”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory – ORNL revealed in a statement. “No classified information was lost; However, visitor personal information may have been stolen. If you visited ORNL between the years 1990 and 2004, your name and other personal information, such as your Social Security number or date of birth, may have been part of the stolen information.”
If the Government can’t keep their networks secure, who can?
I won’t repost this article but denial of service type attacks wherein the hacker sucks so much bandwith out of a site it cannot be accessed by the public. Here is the article if you’re interested: http://gawker.com/5310237/entire-us-government-under-hacker-attack
My thoughts on the matter? If you REALLY don’t want your site hacked, you should probably hire a hacker 
