Hopkins research lab reports cyber attack

The Web site for Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, which works closely with the military and NASA on research projects, was hit with a cyber attack that officials discovered Sunday and which led them to take down the site until they analyze their computer systems, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Officials at APL, which is based in Laurel, discovered “penetration from an unwanted source” on its external Web site over the weekend, prompting them to take the site offline, according to Helen Worth, a spokesman. Worth said the Web site had been victimized in the past by smaller attacks, but this recent one was the most significant incident to date. (Baltimore Sun)