Energy Department's Lab Shuts Internet After Phishing Attack

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is investigating a sophisticated phishing attack that forced it to shut down email and Internet access. The lab -- which houses some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and stores classified government data -- was hit with a phishing attack on April 7 that was designed specifically to remove information from the network.

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