In a story that reads like it came strait out of Trojan Horse, the NY Times announced today that it has been infiltrated by Chinese hackers in a campaign that ran over the last several months since the Times readied a story on a the corruption of a Chinese official:
Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months
On August 15 at exactly 11:08 a virus that had infected 30,000 computers of Saudi oil company Saudi Aramco woke up and deleted all the documents accessible to it, replacing the files with an image of a burning US flag. Sound familiar? If you read Zero Day, then it should, since the premise of Zero Day is a very similar attack, except directly against the US. The New York Times published an article today that reveals more information about the attack, including the official US theory that Iran was behind it. The incident highlights just how realistic and how at risk we are to a Zero Day-type attack:
NY Times: In Cyberattack on Saudi Firm, U.S. Sees Iran Firing Back
The Senate Committe on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released a video yesterday that Al Qaeda made last year calling for ‘Electronic Jihad’. It’s more evidence that Zero Day’s plot is an all too real threat: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cyber-terrorism-al-qaeda-video-calls-electronic-jihad/story?id=16407875#.T70M7EXcPPY
Mark makes the case for how his hit cyberthriller, Zero Day, is likely to be realized in non-fiction form in this 20-minute short version of his popular RSA Conference session: