Everyone needs to do more to counter the sophisticated nature of botnet attacks and exfiltration of data.

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Joining the CIA during the heyday of spy vs. spy, Mendez's specialty was exfiltration -- getting friendly agents out of hostile territory.

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"In this instance the attack was identified, the system was isolated, and there is no indication whatsoever that any exfiltration of data took place, " the official said.

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Imagine if the problem had been first identified in November via a process to audit related systems based on the one reported intrusion into the internal chat application, or if an intrusion detection system had started firing red based on the exfiltration of their entire MySQL database.

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