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Report reveals cyberattacks on oil companies
Summary
Three U.S. oil companies were targeted in 2008 in computer attacks in which sensitive information was leaked, including in one case to a computer in China, according to a report.
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Three U.S. oil companies were targeted in 2008 in computer attacks in which sensitive information was leaked, including in one case to a computer in China, according to a published report.
In the attacks, senior level executives received e-mails that contained embedded links that when clicked on downloaded spyware to computers, The Christian Science Monitor reported Monday. The spyware was custom-made and undetectable by antivirus software, according to the report. The publication conducted a five-month investigation into the attacks.
The companies--Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips--were informed by the FBI that valuable information was targeted including "bid data" on the quantity, value, and location of oil discoveries around the world, and messages and e-mail passwords were exposed, the report said.
For more on this story, read "Report unearths targeted attacks on oil firms " on CNET News.
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Me_too27th Jan 2010 -
RE: Report reveals cyberattacks on oil companies
It seems the real things always come out when it seems handy information to point the great public one way or the other. In crime, war and cybercrime Do we have clean hands ourselves?
Still makes you wonder with all those connected networks is there a way to block anything?
j.vette28th Jan 2010
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