It was a bitter lesson for the Pentagon—they were, in fact, easy pickings for attackers using a technique that the CIA and NSA had often used to get into foreign computer systems. “People worked through the night to come up with a solution,” Plunkett recalled. “We were able to develop what we thought was a reasonable solution that ended up being a very good solution.” The fix—called Operation Buckshot Yankee—was deployed by the Pentagon later that day. Then, to keep a similar breach from happening again, USB ports on Department of Defense computers were sealed with superglue.
