From SecurityWeek:
DHS Mistakenly Releases 840-pages of Critical Infrastructure Documents Via Mishandled FOIA Request
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has mistakenly released hundreds of documents, some of which contain sensitive information and potentially vulnerable critical infrastructure points across the United States, in response to a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about a cyber-security attack.
The Operation Aurora attack was publicized in 2010 and impacted Google and a number of other high-profile companies. However, DHS responded to the request by releasing more than 800 pages of documents related to the 'Aurora' experiment conducted several years ago at the Idaho National Laboratory, where researchers demonstrated a way to damage a generator via a cyber-attack.
The documents are posted on MuckRock.com. The information request was made May 17. On July 3, the agency replied with the mistaken documents.
When contacted by SecurityWeek, the DHS declined to comment about the situation.
Of the documents released by the DHS, none were related to the Operation Aurora cyber attack as requested.
If you visit the MuckRock site, there is a lot of repetative data in the first part of the document. Skip to page 700 where things get really interesting really fast.
More over at Control.
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