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joi, 22 septembrie 2011

UPDATE 6-Japan tells arms supplier to probe cyber attack

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* Defence ministry tells Mitsubishi Heavy to conduct probe

* Mitsubishi Heavy shares drop 3.7 pct vs 1.6 pct Nikkei fall

* China dismisses suggestion hacking originated there (Adds analyst comment, detail, China denial)

By Mayumi Negishi and James Topham

TOKYO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Japan told its biggest weapons supplier, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , to investigate a cyber attack on its computers on Tuesday, warning it may have breached contracts to supply billions of dollars of equipment by keeping quiet about the online assault.

Under the terms of an agreement the government imposes on all contractors, companies are obliged to inform it promptly of any breach of sensitive or classified information, a defence official said. Defence officials learnt of the August attack from local press reports Monday.

"It's up to the defence ministry to decide whether or not the information is important. That is not for Mitsubishi Heavy to decide. A report should have been made," a spokesman for the ministry told Reuters.

Professor Yoshiyasu Takefuji, a cyber-security expert at Keio University, said this was the first example of defence-related cyber attack in Japan and had to be taken seriously.

"This happened a month ago, and it's just in the last few days they realized how bad it was," he said. "They've been dozing for the past month."

There was no clue as to who was responsible. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed suggestions the hacking could have originated in China.

"The Chinese government has consistently opposed hacking attack activities. Relevant laws strictly prohibit this," spokesman Hong Lei told reporters.

"China is one of the main victims of hacking ... Criticizing China as being the source of hacking attacks not only is baseless, it is also not beneficial for promoting international cooperation for internet security."

The hacking furore may widen after a second military contractor, IHI Corp , which supplies engine parts for fighter planes, said its employees had been subject to a growing number of suspicious e-mails.

PUNITIVE ACTION

A spokesman didn't elaborate on the nature of the e-mails. The Nikkei business daily had said earlier the company had also been the victim of a cyber attack.

Mitsubishi Heavy, which has built the U.S.-designed F-15 fighter jet and missile systems including Patriot batteries under licence, said on Monday that computer systems had been accessed and some network information, such as IP addresses, may have been leaked.

Should Mitsubishi's probe reveal the loss of sensitive data, the defence ministry could impose penalties on its main domestic arms supplier, a business that accounts for a tenth of Mitsubishi Heavy's revenue.

As much of that equipment is built in partnership with U.S. companies including Raytheon Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. , the impact of any punitive action could spread.

Mitsubishi Heavy won 215 deals worth 260 billion yen ($3.4 billion) from the Defence Ministry in the year to last March, or nearly a quarter of the ministry's spending that year.

Besides surface-to-air Patriot missiles the weapons included and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles.

Defence Minister Yasuo Ichikawa said he had so far received no reports of classified information being stolen. He did not say what information was at risk.

An investigation by a computer security company revealed connections were made to 14 overseas sites, including at least 20 servers in China, Hong Kong, the United States and India, the Yomiuri newspaper reported earlier, citing unidentified sources.

Overall 83 computers and servers at 11 locations including its head office, factories and R&D center were accessed in the attack, a Mitsubishi spokesman confirmed.

If Mitsubishi's probe reveals the loss of classified data, it would represent the third major breach in security at the company in less than a decade following the loss of nuclear reactor test data in 2006 and the leak of information on its fighter jets in 2003, local media reported

The Mitsubishi spokesman declined to comment further on the August cyber attack, saying it aims to conclude its investigation by the end of September. He declined to discuss the company's supply contract with the government.

A Japanese defence white paper released last month urged better protection against cyber attacks after a spate of high-profile online assaults this year that included Lockheed Martin and other U.S. defence contractors.

That call for vigilance came after the United States revealed in July that 24,000 files had been stolen by a foreign intelligence entity from a U.S. defence contractor in March.

"No country takes this seriously until something bad happens. But if they don't take it seriously this time, there will be another big incident," Keio University's Takefuji said.

Mitsubishi Heavy shares fell 3.7 percent to 317 yen in Tokyo, compared with a 1.6 percent fall in the benchmark Nikkei average . ($1 = 76.405 Japanese Yen) (Additional reporting by Isabel Reynolds, Lisa Twaronite and Kiyoshi Takenaka in Tokyo and Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Writing by Tim Kelly; Editing by Nathan Layne and Nick Macfie)

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luni, 19 septembrie 2011

UPDATE 1-Japan's defence industry hit by its first cyber attack

* Mitsubishi Heavy says was target of cyber attack

* Some 80 computers infected, data stolen - Yomiuri

* Company is Japan's biggest defence contractor (Updates throughout, adds analyst comments)

TOKYO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd said on Monday its computers had been hacked into, with one newspaper saying the target was Japan's biggest defence contractor's factories for submarines, missiles and nuclear power plant components.

A Mitsubishi Heavy spokesman said information could have been stolen in what was the first known cyber attack on Japan's defence industry. He gave no other details, saying the company would issue a statement later in the day once its investigation had been completed.

A Japanese defence white paper released last month urged vigilance against cyber attacks after a spate of high-profile online assaults this year that included Lockheed Martin and other U.S. defence contractors.

There were suggestions at the time that those attacks had originated in China.

The Yomiuri newspaper said about 80 virus-infected computers were found at the company's Tokyo headquarters as well as manufacturing and research and development sites including Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works and Nagoya Guidance & Propulsion System Works.

Kobe Shipyard currently builds submarines and makes components to build nuclear power stations, while the Nagasaki Shipyard makes escort ships. The Nagoya plant makes guided missiles and rocket engines, the paper said citing unnamed sources.

At least eight different kids of computer virus including Trojan horse, which steals key information from infected computer hardware, were found at Mitsubishi Heavy's main office or production sites, the Yomiuri said.

It is the country's biggest defense contractor, winning 215 deals worth 260 billion yen ($3.4 billion) from Japan's Ministry of Defense in the year to last March, or nearly a quarter of the ministry's spending that year.

Weapons included surface-to-air Patriot missiles and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles.

Mitsubishi Heavy has also been working closely with Boeing , making wings for its 787 Dreamliner jets.

"It's probably just the first that hacking attacks in Japan have been detected. It's consistent with what we've seen already with big American defence companies," Andrew Davies, a cyber-warfare analyst with the government backed defence think-tank, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told Reuters.

"The Japanese make large conventional submarines that are among the world's most sophisticated ... (they) have very nicely integrated solutions with their own mechanical, electronic and control systems, so it a pretty attractive hacking proposition, to get the design of a Japanese submarine," he added. ($1 = 76.875 Japanese Yen) (Additional by Rob Taylor in Canbberra, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

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vineri, 3 iunie 2011

UPDATE 5-Hackers attack another Sony network, post data

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* Attack targeted Sony Pictures Entertainment

* Customer data published on Internet

* Sony says checking hacker's claim; shares flat

* Lockheed Martin, Google also victims of cyber attacks

* Cyber security rising up agenda of global policymakers

By Jim Finkle and Liana B. Baker

BOSTON/NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems, the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company.

LulzSec, a group that claims attacks on U.S. PBS television and Fox.com, said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites. It published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony.

"From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING," the hacking group said in a statement. "Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?"

The security breach is the latest cyber attack against high-profile firms, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Inc .

LulzSec's claims came as Sony executives were trying to reassure U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on data security in Washington about their efforts to safeguard the company's computer networks, which suffered the biggest security breach in history in April.

Sony has been under fire since hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 percent of which are users in North America or Europe.

Sony said at the time credit card information may have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online services. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the April attack.

It later revealed hackers had stolen data from 25 million users of a separate system, its Sony Online Entertainment PC games network, in a breach discovered on May 2.

Sony said it was investigating the breach claimed by LulzSec and declined to elaborate. Sony shares in Tokyo fell 0.6 percent on Friday, in line with the broader market.

The latest attack, unlike that on the PlayStation Network, was not on a revenue-generating Website and was likely to have no impact on earnings, analysts said.

Reuters confirmed the authenticity of the data on several contestants that LulzSec said it had published.

CYBER SECURITY

Cyber security is quickly rising up the agenda for global policymakers.

The Australian government said on Friday it will develop a cyber defence strategy and the United States said in a report in May that hostile acts in cyberspace would be treated just like any other threat to the country. [ID:nL3E7H300H][ID:nN3135624]

The hacking attack on Lockheed may have compromised the safety of SecureID tokens made by EMC Corp , while that on Google targeted, among others, senior U.S. government officials' data. [ID:nN02261322][ID:nN02290419]

"These allegations are very serious," U.S. Secretary of States Hillary Clinton said of the Google attack, which the Internet giant said appeared to originate in China.

In the latest attack on Sony, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission could choose to review the circumstances leading up to the breach if Sony Pictures Entertainment failed to use proper procedures for protecting the data of its customers.

John Bumgarner, chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit group that monitors Web threats, said he was not surprised that Sony's systems had again been breached.

"The system was unsecure," said Bumgarner, who last month warned of a string of security vulnerabilities across Sony's networks that he had identified.

He said he found vulnerabilities in the Sony Pictures Entertainment network as recently as last weekend.

The first hacking attacks in April prompted Sony to shut down its PlayStation Network and other services for close to a month.

The PlayStation games network and Qriocity, a video and music service, are back online except for some operations in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

Representatives criticized Sony in the Congressional hearing for waiting several days to notify customers of the breach.

LulzSec has claimed responsibility for several hacks over the past month. It said it defaced the U.S. PBS television network's websites, and posted data stolen from its servers on Monday to protest a "Front Line" documentary about WikiLeaks.

It has also broken into a Fox.com website and published data about contestants for the upcoming Fox TV talent show, "X Factor."

LulzSec also said on Thursday it had hacked into Sony BMG Music Entertainment Netherlands and Belgium. It previously disclosed an attack on Sony Music Japan. (Additional reporting by Diane Bartz in Washington, Mayumi Negishi in Tokyo; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Richard Chang and Muralikumar Anantharaman)