Cyber-Hackers Break Into IMF Computer System
November 14, 2008
By Richard Behar, FoxNews
Published by FoxNews, Friday, November 14, 2008
Another major international financial institution has had its computer system attacked by unknown cyber-hackers, FOX News has learned.
The discovery of the assault last week threw into crisis the Washington, D.C. based International Monetary Fund (IMF), which offers emergency financial aid to countries faced with balance-of-payments problems, and provoked a shutdown of IMF computers that lasted for several days.
In October, FOX News reported that the computer system at the World Bank …More
Internet thieves make big money stealing corporate info
November 12, 2008
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
Find original copy of his article here.
An innocuous posting appeared on a Houston-based technology company’s internal website on a recent Friday afternoon.
A couple of workers saw it, and obeyed instructions to click on a Web link. The posting seemed trustworthy. It was on an employees-only message board. And the link referenced news about a favorite company charity.
GRAPHIC: Anatomy of a corporate data heist
By clicking on the …More
Meet A-Z: The computer hacker behind a cybercrime wave
November 6, 2008
USA TODAY
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
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He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia’s bright young tech stars. He’s a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions.
Trouble is, A-Z’s masterstroke is a computer program called ZeuS that helps cybergangs steal people’s identity data and pull off Web scams on a vast scale. Last fall, German criminals used ZeuS to pull off an …More
Cyber Security Questions Persist at World Bank
November 2, 2008
By Richard Behar
Published by FoxNews, Sunday, November 02, 2008
Is the World Bank in the middle of a security meltdown?
Over the past year, as FOX News reported three weeks ago, the bank has suffered a series of Internet attacks that penetrated at least 18 and perhaps as many as 40 of the bank’s data servers. Moreover, spyware was apparently installed on computers inside the bank’s treasury unit in Washington. The bank denies that sensitive data was compromised in any of …More