NYT Hack Shows Gaping Holes in Traditional Security Systems

After The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed last week that their systems had been compromised by Chinese hackers, the Journal reported that the FBI has been probing attacks on U.S. media -- part of a long-running pattern by a "foreign entity" to compromise security at major U.S. companies -- for more than a year. The Times attack, particularly, set the security community buzzing as its Symantec antivirus software failed to identify 45 of the 46 strains of malware planted on its computers.





by John P. Mello Jr. via TechNewsWorld