“The U.S. government plans to ask China for a formal explanation regarding the cyberattacks against Google and other U.S. companies, according to a State Department spokesman. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already hinted at such a move in a statement she released when Google first revealed the attacks. ‘We will be issuing a formal [...]
“Last month, when Google engineers at their sprawling campus in Silicon Valley began to suspect that Chinese intruders were breaking into private Gmail accounts, the company began a secret counteroffensive. It managed to gain access to a computer in Taiwan that it suspected of being the source of the attacks. Peering inside that machine, company [...]
“Juniper Networks Inc. said Thursday that it was a target of the same cyber attacks believed to have affected Google Inc. and other companies. The announcement makes the Sunnyvale, Calif., maker of networking equipment the third company to say publicly that it was targeted since Google announced Tuesday that attackers based in China broke into [...]
“Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. ‘We have never ever, outside of the defense industry, seen commercial industrial companies come under that [...]
“The cyber attack from China that hit Google and 33 other companies in December leveraged a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer. ‘In our investigation we discovered that one of the malware samples involved in this broad attack exploits a new, not publicly known vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer,’ said McAfee CTO George Kurtz in a [...]
“A Los Angeles law firm representing a company suing China for allegedly stealing its software code announced its computers have come under a cyber-attack that originated in the Asian nation and that the FBI is investigating the attempted intrusion. Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, which is representing Santa Barbara-based CYBERsitter, LLC in a $2.2 billion lawsuit [...]
“Google (GOOG.O) said on Tuesday that it would review the feasibility of its business operations in China, after a cyber attack originating from China resulted in the loss of intellectual property. Also on Wednesday, Adobe Systems (ADBE.O) said its computer network systems had been attacked but no sensitive information was stolen. The attackers may have [...]
“Maryland wants to become the Silicon Valley of cybersecurity. In a new report, the state says it has the assets, including a ‘cluster’ of required IT capabilities, to support the federal government’s growing cybersecurity requirements. The report, titled ‘CyberMaryland,’ cites Maryland’s higher education, R&D, technology workforce, and base of businesses and government agencies as reasons [...]
“A hacker broke into the Suffolk County National Bank’s online banking system and got access to login information for more than 8,000 customers in November, the bank disclosed Monday.” (Source: Hacker got logins for 8,000 accounts at Suffolk bank)
“Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be [...]
