Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti-virus, Australia, commonwealth bank of australia, computer virus infections, computers news, denial of service, dos, goldman sachs, government, government websites, information pirate, information security, it, korea, news limited, personal computers, ping, pirate attacks, security, south korea, south korean government, Trojan
The past ten days has seen three different but equally interesting Information Security alerts. Two involve major financial institutions (Goldman Sachs and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)) and one the South Korean Government. Goldman Sachs: Sergey Aleynikov, a dual US and Russian citizen, is charged with stealing a ‘trading code’ from Goldman Sachs and transferring [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 anti-virus, email, word
Two eye opening reports have been published recently. Both deal with what has been termed Ghostnet which has been discovered in tracking the infiltration of Tibetan computer networks. The two reports are: ‘Tracking GhostNet’ (University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies and The SecDev Group) and ‘The Snooping Dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan [...]
