November 19, 2009 - 3:39 pm
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The Chinese military defence website was subjected to 2.3 million hacking attempts in its first month online according to officials.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8367880.stm
November 10, 2009 - 8:07 pm
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Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay. They allegedly used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/rbs-worldpay/
November 10, 2009 - 5:00 pm
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — A massive 2007 electrical blackout in Brazil has been newly blamed on computer hackers, but was actually the result of a utility company’s negligent maintenance of high voltage insulators on two transmission lines. That’s according to reports from government regulators and others who investigated the incident for more than a year.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/brazil_blackout/