Quote :

"BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed there was one "state actor" behind the attacks but declined to name it, though one security expert who has been briefed on the hacking said the evidence points to China. The long list of victims in the five-year campaign include the governments of the United States, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada; the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the International Olympic Committee (IOC); the World Anti-Doping Agency; and an array of companies, from defense contractors to high-tech enterprises."

Oh snap.

http://news.yahoo.com/biggest-ever-series-cyber-attacks-uncovered-u-n-040749882.html

8/3/2011 1:45:47 AM

those guys just don't give a what

8/3/2011 1:46:54 AM

Quote :

"Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world."

Is it as serious as the WHITE HOUSE EMAIL PHISHING?

OH NO NOT SPAM.

8/3/2011 1:48:34 AM

Quote :

""In fact, I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.""

hmmm

8/3/2011 1:49:53 AM

So McAfee "discovered" these intrusions

I bet they can sell the stuff to stop them also, right?

8/3/2011 9:41:17 AM

How did McAfee make this discovery, I wonder? Just curious if they'll give a methodology.

8/3/2011 9:42:21 AM

^

Quote :

"McAfee learned of the extent of the hacking campaign in March this year, when its researchers discovered logs of the attacks while reviewing the contents of a "command and control" server that they had discovered in 2009 as part of an investigation into security breaches at defense companies."

It would be stupid of them to go in-depth on how it was discovered.

8/3/2011 10:00:05 AM

mcafee's network security products and teams (largely acquired and having nothing to do with shitty AV software) are actually top notch. i've met some of their lead architects and they know their shit. with this in mind and having spoken to my friend at length who works in SecOps at google, this is highly likely.

[Edited on August 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM. Reason : .]

8/3/2011 10:02:24 AM

In related news, I reported Obama for spam based on my twitter feed late last week.

8/3/2011 10:08:38 AM

Quote :

"Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)"

lol

8/3/2011 10:32:33 AM

Quote :

"Experts warned that commercial espionage was a bigger threat to business than Lulzsec and Anonymous."

Lol no shit.

8/3/2011 12:20:25 PM

if i was a fortune 2000 company i would just clone my entire data setup with dummy info and hold a hacking competition for big prize money, specifically inviting Anonymous and Lulzsec. They have no reason to go after a company who is willing to listen to improve their security and besides that it's much better to get poked in the eye (Anonymous) than stabbed in the back (China)

8/3/2011 1:42:35 PM

i guess this security stuff just baffles me. is it laziness on the part of companies, inexperience, bad equipment, bad software? why can't we get ahead of these guys

8/3/2011 2:13:52 PM

i always figured it was either the almighty dollar as in a risk/cost type analysis or a CEO that doesn't care what those geeks in IT do he just wants to pay someone cheap to do it

8/3/2011 2:20:09 PM

The real question is what was hacked, was it standard servers or mainframes? The prevailing though is that no one has hacked a mainframe before (or at least claimed to have - which if you do it, you think someone claims it), so if they got through its security, much scarier as that opens a whole new set of doors since most critical banking, stocks, medical, etc records are housed on the mainframe.

8/3/2011 7:14:40 PM

while there is tons of mainframe stuff still going on (half my company's revenue comes from it) the data these mainframes use is accessible outside the mainframe world and makes the necessity to hack z/OS almost non-existent.

8/3/2011 7:19:29 PM

^^^

[Edited on August 3, 2011 at 7:21 PM. Reason : it's all just a big cost-benefit analysis]

8/3/2011 7:20:26 PM

Could be social engineering too, there's only so much you can do to control that.

8/3/2011 7:25:17 PM