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Hacking may cost Naperville more than $600,000
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:26:58 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121016/news/710169607/ By Justin Kmitch Daily Herald 10/17/2012Hackers who recently compromised the security of Naperville’s website, email and other online services not only put the city into an informational black hole but also a financial black hole.
City council members on Tuesday approved spending as much as $673,000 to acquire network security hardware and software, computer servers, and associated services necessary to bring the city back online after more than two weeks offline.
The noncompetitive bid from Canadian-based N-Dimensions computer consultant includes $395,000 for hardware for security protection and hacker detection, $221,000 for consulting fees for network intrusion identification and analysis and $57,000 for a consultant for network restoration.
The city has already spent $92,000 for work done in the days following the Oct. 2 collapse.
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