Investigation Into IMF Cyber Attack
June 12th, 2011In other news: Hacker Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by Government
Via: RTE:
The FBI is helping the International Monetary Fund investigate a cyber attack on its computer systems.
It is understood the breach was designed to install software which would create a ‘digital insider presence’.
The IMF, which holds sensitive economic data about many countries, said its operations were fully functional.
A cybersecurity expert who has worked for both the IMF and the World Bank said the intruders’ goal had been to install software that would give a nation state a ‘digital insider presence’ on the IMF network.
Such a presence could yield a trove of non-public economic data used by the Fund to promote exchange rate stability, support balanced international trade and provide resources to remedy members’ balance-of-payments crises.
‘It was a targeted attack,’ said Tom Kellerman, who has worked for both international financial institutions and who serves on the board of a group known as the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance.
The code used in the IMF incident was developed specifically for the attack on the institution, said Mr Kellerman.
The last time I remember something being referred to as designed specifically for an “insider presence” by a “nation state” was Stuxnet. And with CIA director Panetta saying this week that the next “Pearl Harbour” could be a cyber-attack…
My spidey senses are tingling.
There been a few cyber security attacks this week that sound to me, well deserved. You mess with the people, you are a target.
We old folk here back at the ranch don’t use online services to pay our bills. We buy stamps and mail our bills and know the people at the post office.
Keeps people employed. Similarly, we never use the self check out line at the grocery store.
We are rebelling against the machines that want to do away with jobs and people needed to do them.
And we never buy EZ passes, those digital read things linked to your checking account.
I don’t know how stupid people can be to wear one of those passes on their vehicle. Its another tracking device that gives some no-name computer program access to your checking account. That can be hacked so easily. And requires one less human body with a full tine, well paying job with benefits.
I think shunning the electronic world when or if ever possible is the way to live. But that’s just me. I used to open the envelopes when people paid there bills by check. This go green bill paying isn'”green” at all. Its a scam. Take my check for your services and just quit with the go green stuff. Save it because its a lie and is taking jobs away and giving them to some bunch of machines somewhere in the world. Could it be India? China?
Mail your bills. These companies don’t want to pay the overseas mailing fees.