New York Times
A short history of hacking attacks against the media
The revelation of the Chinese hacking campaign against reporters working for the New York Times has raised awareness of targeted malware attacks, but what does the history of cyberattacks against media agencies look like?
Graham Cluley takes a trip down memory lane..
Chinese hackers break into the New York Times, steal every employee's password
Chinese hackers have been infiltrating the newspaper's 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.
Stuxnet: How USA and Israel created anti-Iran virus, and then lost control of it
The Stuxnet virus was created by the USA to target an Iranian nuclear facility, but accidentally escaped into the wider world, claims the New York Times.
NYT journalist: My email was hacked in Beijing
A journalist with the New York Times, based in Beijing, China, has written about how his Yahoo email account was hacked in order to surreptitiously forward his incoming messages to an unknown third party. It was only after reporter Andrew Read more…
Hackers bought ad space directly from New York Times
The hackers who exposed innocent internet users to malicious computer code, bought the advertising space on the New York Times website directly from the newspaper it has been revealed. According to a report published on the New York Times website, Read more…
Fake anti-virus attack hits New York Times website readers
This weekend, readers of the New York Times website NYTimes.com were exposed to danger as the popular media outlet served up malicious adverts to some of its visitors. According to a posting on the website some readers saw a pop-up Read more…
Spammers hack New York Times account on Twitter
Yesterday, a Twitter account run by the New York Times was the latest high profile victim of an account hack. The Moment, a fashion blog from the New York Times, which has over 510,000 followers on the micro-blogging network, fell Read more…
