In the News: U.S. won\'t confirm report of Chinese hacking

From CNN today:

Government officials are not confirming a report that Chinese officials may have secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a December visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. Read more...

The AP cited officials and industry experts as sources for the story, which said the surreptitious copying is believed to have occurred when a laptop belonging to someone in the U.S. trade delegation was left unattended.
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US-CERT, a DHS entity charged with analyzing and reducing cyberthreats and vulnerabilities, has visited the Commerce Department "roughly eight times" since Guttierez's December trip but that the visits had "nothing to do with laptops or these allegations." At some agencies, laptops and other electronic devices officials take abroad are routinely "scrubbed" upon return.
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Two words today:
surreptitious - 秘密的,偷偷摸摸的, done, made, or acquired by stealth
scrub - 擦掉, to clean with hard rubbing

For example:
News organizations frequently adopt policies regarding surreptitious use of these newsgathering tools.
The tran of the "one terrible pilot" comment was scrubbed from the White House Website.