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Chinese hackers steal private data from 760 firms
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:56:27 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/08/chinese-hackers-steal-private-data-760-firms.html The Jakarta Post 05/08/2012 China-based hackers are reportedly targeting US-based Google Inc and Intel Corp. An attack hackers launched on iBahn could help them access secret e-mails, even encrypted ones, according to a US senior intelligence official familiar with the matter. As many as 760 companies have had their data accessed by hackers through iBahn, which runs broadband business and provides entertainment access for guests of Marriott International Inc?s global network and other hotel chains, as well as for multinational companies that hold meetings in the hotels. Internet security company Trustwave Corp SpiderLabs chief Nick Percoco said what was more concerning was that hackers might have used the iBahn system as a stepping stone to connect to companies linked to the system by creating a ?secret backdoor? through employees who had stayed in one of the hotel chains. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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