World oil company staked by Hacker
Company Info August 31st, 2010
WASHINGTON – Crime cyberspace never indiscriminate in targeting their victims. From the petty to the class snapper, semuannya the target of cyber crime.
In a recent report issued by the Christian Science Monitor says, at least three important officials in the oil and gas companies have had major natural malware attacks on a large scale in 2008 and until now. That attack was deliberately done agara they can mengambik important data in multi-dollar company is.
Added by the survey, oil companies and the leading natural gas is ExxonMobile ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil are giant oil industry’s most targeted by malware, such as quoted Internet News, Thursday (28/1/2010).
The attack continued until mid 2009, using email mode can escape from anti-virus security that has used the company. In fact until now, not only that these three companies, but has spread to other companies.
The data is actually stolen any trade secrets that are typically stored in corporate computer networks, most of them stole a file containing the location of oil drilling that has not worked around the world and how much profits.
Several investigative agencies in the United States had indicated that these hackers are neatly organized in the country China. However, no one has issued a statement publicly.
