Cyber Spies Target Silent Victims

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Forbes.com.

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The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed last week that cyberspies have
been sifting through some government computer systems. What wasn't said:
The same spies may have been combing through the computer systems of major
U.S. defense contractors for more than a year.

"There's been a massive, broad and successful series of attacks targeting
the private sector," says Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a
Bethesda, Md.-based organization that hosts a response center for companies
with cybersecurity crises. "No one will talk about it, but companies are
creating a frenzy trying to stop it."

Paller believes that the 10 most prominent U.S. defense
contractors--including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop
Grumman--have, for the past 14 months, been the victims of the same sort of
cyberespionage that has recently plagued the Pentagon.

He and other experts warn that the classified military technology research
held by these private sector companies is even more vulnerable to hackers
than the data stored on government computers. And while the U.S. government
publicizes its security breaches, researchers say these commercial
contractors almost always keep their data losses out of the public eye.

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More:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/11/cyberspies-raytheon-lockheed-tech-cx_ag_09
11cyberspies.html

- - ferg


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