http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/29/pol-weston-hacking-firms.html By Greg Weston CBC News Nov 29, 2011 A leading cyber-crime expert says foreign hackers who launched a massive attack on Canadian government computers last fall also broke into the data systems of prominent Bay Street law firms and other companies to get insider information on an attempted $38-billion corporate takeover. Daniel Tobok, whose international cyber-sleuthing company was called in by a number of the firms hit by the attacks, says the hacking spree from computers in China were all connected to last year's ultimately unsuccessful takeover bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. "All those different attacks on companies, law firms and government were all interconnected — they weren't isolated incidents," he said in an interview with CBC News. The cyber-forensics guru with prominent clients around the world calls the assault on Canadian companies and the government "one of the biggest attacks we have ever seen." [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Nov 30 2011 - 01:39:27 PST
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