LAS VEGAS — There are so many ways to get hacked at the world’s largest hacker conference.
A hacker could bump against your pocket with a card reader that steals your credit card information. Or a hacker might eavesdrop on your Internet traffic through an unsecured Wi-Fi network. Or a hacker might compromise your cell phone while you charge it in the hotel’s public phone-charging kiosk.
The Internet connection here has been dubbed “the world’s most hostile network.” You might want to avoid the A.T.M.’s, too.
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ABC News’ Kirit Radia (@KiritRadia_ABC) reports:
Cuba’s Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of American Alan Gross on charges of spying. In March a lower court sentenced Gross to 15 years in prison for participating in “a subversive project of the U.S. government that aimed to destroy the revolution through the use of communications systems out of the control of authorities.”.
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A senior researcher at McAfee has gone public with evidence of one of the largest cyber espionage campaigns in recent history, but while he has refused to speculate on who may be responsible for the theft of government secrets and corporate documents, other than to say it was “state sponsored,” fingers are pointing squarely at China.
The research, first reported by Vanity Fair, shows that perpetrators spent at least five years stealing documents and other intellectual property from 72 government and private organisations in 14 countries. Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee is credited with discovering the the campaign, called Operation Shady RAT, or “remote access tool.”
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PROVO — When Marshall Fox installed a secret
camera in a shower and started snapping pictures of teenage girls,
he probably didn’t realize it would eventually lead to a year in
jail and six more on probation.
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Shady RAT intrusions were rampant in 2008, the year of the Beijing Olympics. (Click image for a large, readable version.)
(Credit:Â McAfee)
A widespread cyber-espionage campaign stole government secrets, sensitive corporate documents, and other intellectual property for five years from more than 70 public and private organizations in 14 countries, according to the McAfee researcher who uncovered the effort.
The campaign, dubbed “Operation Shady RAT” (RAT stands for “remote access tool”) was discovered by Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at the cyber-security firm McAfee. Vanity Fair‘s Michael Joseph Gross was first to write about the findings. The targets cut across industries, including government, defense, energy, electronics, media, real estate, agriculture, and construction. The governments hit include the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and India.
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