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Infrastructure worldwide vulnerable to cyber-attacks: report – The China Post

April 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cyber threats such as Stuxnet pose an increasing risk to critical infrastructure worldwide but many facilities are unprepared to face the danger, according to a report released on Tuesday.

 

“We found that the adoption of security measures in important civilian industries badly trailed the increase in threats over the last year,” said Stewart Baker of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), releasing a report conducted with computer security firm McAfee.

For the report, “In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks,” McAfee surveyed 200 information technology executives charged with security at power, oil, gas and water facilities in 14 countries.

“What we found is that they are not ready,” the McAfee-CSIS report said. “The professionals charged with protecting these systems report that the threat has accelerated — but the response has not.”

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European data classification vendor targets U.S. Windows server market – Computerworld

October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dataglobal, a vendor of data classification software based in Germany, has integrated its product with Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and is targeting the U.S. market with its data archiving platform which is able to index files and then set up archival or deletion policies.

Focused primarily on the e-mail archiving marketplace, Dataglobal also announced the completion of its acquisition of fellow German data archiving vendor Inboxx.

Bernd Hoeck, vice president of marketing for Dataglobal, said the company has tightly integrated its data classification engine with Inboxx’s unified archiving product, enabling it to expand the types of file data it can manipulate for deletion and storage capacity reclamation, eDiscovery or internal auditing purposes.

Dataglobal’s dg suite offers data center administrators a method by which they can classify all types of unstructured data, ranging from Microsoft SharePoint files to e-mail, and index them.

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What can Companies do to Protect their IP and Data from a Google-like Cyber Attack

January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Google recently released information about a targeted attack on their corporate infrastructure that occurred in December. The attack came from China and according to Google, resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google.” Apparently they were not the only company that was under a cyber attacks. At least 20 other corporations were hit, including a law firm that was suing China.

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Foreign Journalists in Beijing Hit by E-Mail Hackers – NYTimes.com

January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

At least two foreign journalists living in Beijing have had their Google e-mail accounts hacked, a journalists’ advocacy group in China said Monday. The hackers changed settings so that all Gmail messages would be forwarded to unfamiliar addresses.

The journalists apparently discovered that their accounts had been hacked after Google announced last week that hackers had attempted sophisticated attacks on its security infrastructure. The attacks were traced to mainland China. Google also said that two Gmail accounts had been compromised and, separately, that dozens of people pressing for human rights in China had had their e-mail accounts hacked. In retaliation, Google had said it would talk to the Chinese government about ceasing the practice of self-censorship of its Chinese-language search engine, Google.cn, and that the search company could close down or curtail its operations in China.

The two foreign journalists recently victimized by hackers were among a large number of Gmail users in China who checked their accounts after Google’s announcement and discovered that their accounts had been compromised. In many of those cases, it was unclear exactly when the hackers had broken into the accounts. The attacks are separate from those that were aimed weeks ago at the security infrastructure of Google and more than 30 other companies and entities, most of them based in Silicon Valley, California.

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Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration

November 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft last week launched its first serious effort to build IT into its cloud plans by introducing technologies that help connect existing corporate networks and cloud services to make them look like a single infrastructure.

The concept began to come together at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. The company is attempting to show that it wants to move beyond the first wave of the cloud trend, which is defined by the availability of raw computing power supplied by Microsoft and competitors such as Amazon and Google. Microsoft's goal is to supply tools, middleware and services so users can run applications that span corporate and cloud networks, especially those built with Microsoft's Azure cloud operating system.

“Azure is looking at the second wave,” says Ray Valdes, an analyst with Gartner. “That wave is what happens after raw infrastructure. When companies start moving real systems to the cloud and those systems are hybrid and they have to connect back in significant ways to legacy environments. It's a big challenge and a big opportunity for Microsoft.”

To attack the opportunity, Microsoft introduced projects called Sydney, AppFabric, Next Generation Active Directory, System Center “Cloud”, and updates to the .Net Framework that provide bridges between corporate networks and cloud services. While a small portion of the software is available now, the majority will hit beta cycles in 2010.

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