ISA on CNBC Today at 1:45pm EST…
01.14.10
ISA President Larry Clinton will be a guest on CNBC’s Power Lunch this afternoon at 1:45pm EST. Mr. Clinton has been invited on the program to discuss the cyber security risks and costs of doing business in China in light of the recently disclosed cyber attacks by China against U.S. business interests.
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January 14, Washington Post – (International) Google China cyberattack part of vast espionage campaign, experts say. Computer attacks on Google that the search giant said originated in China were part of a concerted political and corporate espionage effort that exploited security flaws in e-mail attachments to sneak into the networks of major financial, defense and technology companies and research institutions in the United States, security experts said. At least 34 companies — including Yahoo, Symantec, Adobe, Northrop Grumman and Dow Chemical — were attacked, according to congressional and industry sources. Google, which disclosed on Tuesday that hackers had penetrated the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights advocates in the United States, Europe and China, threatened to shutter its operations in the country as a result.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/13/AR2010011300359_pf.html
January 13, Washington Post – (International) Google threatens to leave China after attacks on activists’ e-mail. Google said on January 12 that it may pull out of China because of a sophisticated computer network attack originating there and targeting its e-mail service and corporate infrastructure, a threat that could rattle U.S.-China relations, as well as China’s business community. The company said it has evidence to suggest that “a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists,” but it said that at least 20 other large companies, including finance, media, and chemical firms, have been the targets of similar attacks. Google said it discovered the attack in December 2009. Industry sources said the attacks were even broader, affecting some 34 firms. Adobe said in a posting on a company blog on January 12 that it had been the subject of a “sophisticated, coordinated attack,” but that no sensitive information had been compromised. Congressional sources said that other targeted companies possibly include Northrop Grumman and Dow Chemical. The hackers directed the attacks on the companies through six Internet addresses linked to servers in Taiwan, which sent commands to targeted computers in the firms, said the head of international cyberintelligence for the Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity research and forensics firm Verisign iDefense, which is helping companies investigate the penetrations. The hackers were sending the data to a large Internet data center in San Antonio called Rackspace, he said. They appeared to be after information on weapons systems from defense firms and were seeking companies’ “source code,” the most valuable form of intellectual property because it underlies the firms’ computer applications, he said. U.S. authorities, including the National Security Agency, are involved in investigating the attacks.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/13/AR2010011300359.html
