Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A couple of weeks ago, the University of Virginia had to temporarily shut down its computer network after an attack by hackers believed to operate out of China. Little information was made available about the hack at the time, though unnamed “officials” did say that the hackers had not been able to access anybody’s personal information, nor any of the “sensitive research material” at the university. That doesn’t mean the hackers didn’t try, though.The cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which UVA hired to investigate the attack, recently concluded that the hackers’ intended targets were two specific university employees whose work is somehow connected to China (although, for obvious reasons, neither Mandiant nor the school is willing to detail exactly what sort of work those employees do). Increased hacking threats With all the recent stories about foreign hackers stealing data from various parts of the U.S. government – such as the 22 million security-clearance files stolen from the federal Office of Personnel Management – sometimes it’s easy to forget that, from the perspective of someone seeking to harm U.S. interests, government networks aren’t the only ones worth hacking. Last November, for example, security researchers from Kaspersky announced that for at least four years, […]
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