Seem as if hacking and IT Security are hot topics today. I just read an article about Japan’s largest defense contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Just yesterday they acknowledged that scores of its servers and PCs had been infected with malware. They did however deny that any confidential information had been stolen. Here’s what I found to be most interesting:
The attack against Mitsubishi followed others this year aimed at U.S. defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin , which manufactures the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. The Lockheed attack was carried out using information stolen earlier from RSA Security, the branch of EMC that produces the SecurID two-factor authentication token used by thousands of contractors and corporations to secure their networks.
Enterprise systems are often infected after attackers target individuals by sending them malware-infected business files, such as malicious Microsoft Excel spreadsheets or Word documents.
This is a big deal folks. We must remain diligent and be better prepared with protection against attacks of this kind. It’s something you must think about everyday. If you wait until you know you’ve been hacked it’s too late. You can read this entire Networkworld article by clicking here.
