Defense Companies Hit By Malicious Code

Defense Companies Hit By Malicious Code

Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2008-10-02

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Some security stories relate to fairly harmless issues, but this one
might go well beyond "whoops." It seems that LIGNex1 and Hyundai Heavy
Industries, two Korean companies that construct things for the military,
have had malicious code planted within their computer systems.

Defense Companies Hit By Malicious Code

So you know the (potential) scale of the problem: LIGNex1 deals with
missiles, radar, and communications systems. Hyundai Heavy Industries is
the world's largest shipbuilder. And it was the National Security
Research Institute that found the malicious code. This sounds like the
start of some near-apocalypse novel by Tom Clancy, right?

As for who planted the code, how they did it, and what files were
affected, details are scarce right now. Chalk it up to government
secrecy or (and this is a slightly scarier possibility) true ignorance
at the same level.

Go there...

http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20081002DefenseCompaniesHitByMaliciousCode.html

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