Posts Tagged ‘Cyber Attack’

China Cyber Attacks can be Dangerous for United States

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Washington – China is aggressively developing facilities cyber war and is now in a position ready to disrupt, even crippling the United States military activity in the world. So the warning was delivered by a special commission in the U.S. Congress institutions. In a commission report US-China Economic and Security Review Commission that, stated that China is on the computer facilities to attack the government and the U.S. commercial sector.

It has been mentioned, the Chinese had attacked the U.S. computer system masif in 2002, given the code name Titan Rain. At that time, and quoted by detikINET, China successfully get about 20 Terabytes of data from the U.S. computer networks.

“With the capability of operating cyber of China at this time, they can use it to perform a variety of cyber attacks that can not be dropped by United States, may not even be detected,” the statement in the report.

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Almost All of Computers Vulnerable of Cyber Attack

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Copenhagen – More than 98 percent of Windows computers vulnerable to the cyber criminals because it contains at least 1 application that is not in the patch. In fact, nearly 50 percent of computers have 11 or more programs that affected the risk cyber attacks. That is quite surprising that the statistics cited security bureau based in Copenhagen, Secunia. Secunia revealed the data based on utility-based research through the Personal Software Inspector (PSI) that are installed in the consumer computer.

According to Thomas Kristensen, Secunia Chief Technology Officer, utility that can track the existence of applications that have not been in the patch. Secunia then randomly select the 20,000 machines that have been adopted as the PSI study.

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