{"id":1975331,"date":"2023-07-17T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-typo-puts-military-communications-in-hands-of-russian-ally\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:10:03","slug":"pentagon-typo-puts-military-communications-in-hands-of-russian-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-typo-puts-military-communications-in-hands-of-russian-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon&#8217;s Typo Gives Russian Ally Control of Military Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-typo-puts-military-communications-in-hands-of-russian-ally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1975331&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\u200d  <\/p>\n<h2>A Typo That Could \u200bCompromise \u2062Sensitive U.S.\u200d Emails<\/h2>\n<p>  \u200d<\/p>\n<div>\n\u2062 \u200c \u200c \u2064 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\"\u2062 target=\"_blank\" \u2062rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2063  <\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u2063 \u2063<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. \u200bmilitary uses\u200b the email\u2063 domain \u2063name \u200c&#8221;.MIL,&#8221; which \u200cis sometimes\u200d misspelled as &#8220;.ML,&#8221; \u200cthe registered \u200cdomain for\u200b the \u2064nation of \u200dMali in West Africa. \u200cEmails intended for Pentagon officials, containing\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sensitive-military-messages-accidentally-sent-to-african-nation-due-to-pentagon-typo\/\" title=\"Pentagon Typo Sends Sensitive Military Messages to African Nation\">diplomatic documents<\/a>,\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-grants-26-pardons-and-3-commutations-includes-numerous-prominent-names\/\" title=\"Trump Grants 26 Pardons And 3 Commutations, Includes Numerous Prominent Names\">tax returns<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-ways-to-exercise-your-brain-as-you-age\/\" title=\"4 Ways to Exercise Your Brain as You Age\">travel information<\/a>, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/contents-of-documents-seized-in-unprecedented-mar-a-lago-raid-leaked-to-washington-post\/\" title=\"Contents of Documents Seized in Unprecedented Mar-a-Lago Raid Leaked to Washington Post\">sensitive details<\/a>,\u200b have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-typo-puts-military-communications-in-hands-of-russian-ally\/\" title=\"Pentagon's Typo Gives Russian Ally Control of Military Communications\">mistakenly reached\u2062 email accounts<\/a>\u200d in Mali \u200dwhen\u2063 the \u200bdomain\u200c is misspelled, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0\">report<\/a> from the <em>Financial\u200d Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2064<\/p>\n<p>The issue was first discovered a decade \u2062ago by a\u200d Dutch internet entrepreneur,\u200b Johannes Zuurbier, \u2063who\u2063 has a\u200d contract \u200bto manage Mali&#8217;s\u2063 domain.\u200d Zuurbier\u2064 has \u200dwarned\u2064 the U.S.\u2064 government about the problem and recently intensified his \u200cefforts \u200das \u200dhis contract comes to\u200d an end this week. After that, \u200cthe \u200binformation will \u200dgo \u2062back to\u200c the Malian government, a \u2062close ally \u2062of \u2062the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p> \u2062 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This risk is real and could \u200dbe exploited by adversaries of the US,&#8221; Zuurbier said in\u200d a letter to the \u2062United \u2062States, <a\u2063 href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0\">according<\/a> \u2062to the <em>Financial \u2063Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Zuurbier\u2064 has collected over \u200d100,000 emails since\u2062 January \u200cto\u200d demonstrate the magnitude\u2063 of \u200bthe \u2064problem. In just\u2063 one\u200c day last\u2064 week, he collected \u2063almost 1,000\u200d emails. There are \u200dmillions of such \u200bemails\u2064 in the system\u2062 accumulated over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Pentagon\u200d has \u200cconfirmed the issue and implemented controls\u2062 to prevent the misdirected\u200b emails\u2063 from \u2064being \u200bsent.<\/p>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u2063 Department\u2063 of Defense\u200c is aware \u200cof this \u200cissue and takes all \u200dunauthorized disclosures of \u2064Controlled National \u2063Security Information \u2063or Controlled Unclassified Information seriously,&#8221;<br \/> the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pentagon-typo-leaked-millions-sensitive-messages-african-nation\">told<\/a> Fox News. &#8220;DoD has\u2063 implemented\u200d policy,\u200d training, \u2064and\u2062 technical controls\u2063 to\u2063 ensure that \u2064emails from the &#8216;.mil&#8217; domain are \u2064not delivered to \u200cincorrect \u2062domains. \u2063Such emails \u2062are blocked\u200b before they leave the .mil\u200c domain, and the sender is\u2063 notified that they \u200dmust validate the email\u200b addresses of\u200d the intended recipients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  \u2064<\/p>\n<div>\n \u2062 \u2064  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200d    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\"\u2062 target=\"_blank\"\u2064 rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2064 \u2064 <\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<p>However, the \u200bPentagon\u2063 acknowledges that\u2064 it is\u200b not possible\u200d to &#8220;implement technical controls\u200d preventing the use of personal\u2063 email accounts for government business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> \u2063 \u200b<\/p>\n<p>Mali&#8217;s \u2063connections with \u200dU.S. \u200cadversaries\u200b could \u2064pose \u200ba problem \u200cwhen African officials \u200cgain access\u2063 to the U.S. data.\u200b Russia&#8217;s paramilitary Wagner\u200b Group has <a\u200c href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-mali-government-russia-violence-10ba966bceb2dc732cb170b16258e5a6\">operated<\/a> in Mali \u2062for over a year, assisting the \u2064country \u2063in combating\u200b insurgent groups. The \u2062United States has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/5\/23\/us-says-russias-wagner-force-eyes-mali-as-route-for-war-supplies\">accused<\/a>\u200c Russia \u2064of\u200c using\u200d Mali \u2064as \u200da\u200d transit\u200b hub \u2063to\u2064 supply\u200d weapons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>officials have instead been intercepted by Mali, potentially compromising sensitive information. This inadvertent error has resulted in a significant breach of security, highlighting the need for heightened vigilance and attention to detail in safeguarding critical communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1975332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}