10 years of breach

I know a lot of companies are struggling with watching their internal network (it’s way easier to watch the perimeter, right?”, but this is mind blowing, s San Fran college is reporting they’ve been breached by malware for 10 years. How did they not notice this going on for 10 whole years?

From SF Gate (via Slashdot):

At work for more than a decade, the viruses were detected a few days after Thanksgiving, when the college’s data security monitoring service detected an unusual pattern of computer traffic, flagging trouble.

I guess persistent threats don’t have to be new or advanced.

Read more here.

Posted by Ben Sapiro on January 15, 2012. Filed under Headlines,Malware,News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.