Chinese hackers break into the New York Times, steal every employee's password

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The New York Times has reported that for the last four months Chinese hackers have been infiltrating its networks, broken into the email accounts of senior staff, stolen the corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain access to the personal computers of 53 employees.

Chinese hackers break into the New York Times, steal every employee?s password | Naked Security

 

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How the New York Times cleaned house after its hack attack

If your house was infested with mice, the chances are that you would call a pest control firm to get rid of them.

Once they had done their work, you might go as far as to replace some of the furniture nibbled by the rodents but you probably wouldn't replace every single item they had touched.

Yet that was the approach taken by the New York Times when it cleaned house after its internal network was infested by a more modern nuisance - computer hackers.

Every device, be it a laptop or chunk of network hardware, known or thought to have been compromised by the Chinese hackers was thrown out and replaced with a shiny, and more importantly, clean machine.

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Symantec defiant after New York Times hackers evade antivirus defences

Symantec has offered a carefully-worded but defiant response to the news that one of its customers, the New York Times, was attacked by Chinese hackers with barely any intervention from its software.

Earlier today, the newspaper revealed that hackers probably connected to the Chinese military had spent four months trying to hack into the email accounts of dozens of its journalists, entering the network via compromised PCs.

Forensics carried out by the paper’s security consultant Mandiant showed that the weapon of choice was 45 pieces of targeted Trojan malware, only one of which was detected by the installed Symantec antivirus software.

Symantec defiant after New York Times hackers evade antivirus defences - Techworld.com