Virus allows hackers access to State Department Computers worldwide

This seems pretty worrisome.

"A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S. government's network," Ted Bridis reports for The Associated Press.

Bridis reports, "In the first public account revealing details about the intrusion and the government's hurried behind-the-scenes response, a senior State Department official described an elaborate ploy by sophisticated international hackers. They used a secret break-in technique that exploited a design flaw in Microsoft software." . . .