Security giant McAfee has released a report revealing that a single entity has compromised over 76 organizations during the past five years with the intention of stealing intellectual property.McAfee began investigating Operation Shady RAT, its name for the massive cyber espionage effort, back in 2006. Since then the... |
3 August 2011
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The Pentagon has revealed that back in March it suffered a major security breach in which tens of thousands of sensitive files were stolen.The admission came from Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn in a speech about the Department of Defense's cyber strategy at the National Defense University in Washington... |
15 July 2011
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was recently the target of a sophisticated cyber attack in which hackers managed to access sensitive information.Giving IMF's important role in current and future bailout programs, the non-public data stored on its systems could be very useful to parties trying to predict ma... |
13 June 2011
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The computer network of the European Parliament has been under attack for the past few days in a similar manner to how the European Commission computers were targeted a week ago.An EU Parliament spokesperson confirmed the cyber attack for European Voice. "Information technology services are working day and night to i... |
29 March 2011
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The European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) were targeted in a major cyber espionage attack while preparing for an important EU summit.The BBC cites sources saying the attack is bigger than others that usually hit the Commission's infrastructure."The Commission and External Advisory S... |
24 March 2011
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The French government confirmed that over 150 Finance Ministry computers were affected by a cyber attack that targeted information related to the February G20 summit.The incident was first reported by French weekly magazine Paris Match and is said to have occurred in December.The origin of the attack was traced back... |
7 March 2011
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Emails recently leaked from U.S. security firm HBGary suggest that Morgan Stanley was among the victims of Operation Aurora, the cyber espionage attack that targeted Google and other technology giants.In January 2010, Google issued a somewhat angry announcement that it fell victim to a cyber espionage effort targetin... |
1 March 2011
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People familiar with investigations into a recently disclosed industrial cyber espionage operation, claim that Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc were among the targeted companies.Two weeks ago, McAfee published a white paper describing hacker attacks that siphoned sensitive data from the computers o... |
26 February 2011
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Hackers have managed to access sensitive Canadian government information after hacking into the computer networks of the Finance Department and the Treasury Board.The security breaches were uncovered in January and Internet access was immediately shut down across the two departments to prevent more data from leaking ... |
17 February 2011
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Security giant McAfee reports that a series of cyber attacks originating in China have specifically targeted global oil, energy and petrochemical companies for the past two years.In a newly published white paper, the company's researchers describe the exact process through which the companies were attacked in wh... |
10 February 2011
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Germany has announced plans to open a national cyber-warfare center, outlining the increased attention governments give to such threats.During a press conference on Monday, a spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry revealed that a new "National Cyber-Defense Center" will be created next year.According to CBC&nb... |
28 December 2010
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A U.S. State Department directive asked its diplomats to collect intelligence on leaders of the United Nations and their support staff, information that could have been used for cyber espionage.Called the "National HUMINT Collection Directive," the document was signed by Hillary Clinton and was exposed along with the... |
30 November 2010
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) revealed that one of its high-ranking employees was targeted in a spear phishing attack by a foreign intelligence agency looking to steal military secrets.According to The Register, the incident occurred sometime last year and was mentioned by Simon Kershaw, head of MoD's defence... |
22 November 2010
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The Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) reports that the number of attempted intrusions against the country's military networks has more than doubled this year.The Defence Signals Directorate is Australia's signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency, which also plays an important information security rol... |
11 October 2010
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A lawmaker has uncovered that 1,715 files containing South Korean military secrets, including war plans against North Korea, were stolen from infected Army-issued computers.Song Young-sun, a member of the South Korean parliament, who sits on the National Defense Committee, asked the Defense Ministry recently to relea... |
21 August 2010
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The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, as well as other persons of the country's high ranking officials have become favorite targets for Chinese hackers, local media reports. Various government and intelligence sources attribute the attacks to cyber-espionage efforts sponsored by the government in Beijing.Ac... |
4 April 2009
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