“Hackers had broken into the company’s computer systems and were pilfering sensitive files about its attempted $2.4 billion acquisition of China Huiyuan Juice Group (1886), according to three people familiar with the situation and an internal company document detailing the cyber intrusion. The Huiyuan deal, which collapsed three days later, would have been the largest foreign takeover of a Chinese company at the time.”
I read that article last night when it was posted. I am interested to see what kind of response there is to this based on how interwoven our econmies are. Scary thought that someone in China potentially has the ability to flip a switch. That and the Northrup Grumman losses. Cool…
Dave is a friend of mine and a few of us in the security community were trying to get the buzz phrase “high impact vulnerabilities” to take off and he used it a few times today.
Now we can tell customers they’re full of the HIV.
In the case of UglyGorilla, Web sleuths found digital evidence that linked him to a Chinese national named Wang Dong, who kept a blog about his experience as a P.L.A. hacker from 2006 to 2009, in which he lamented his low pay, long hours and instant ramen meals.
