If this is in fact a malicious attack, those responsible will be held accountable.
The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.
Results released in May 2011 for the Unisys Security Index, a semi-annual survey of consumer opinion on multiple dimensions of security, showed that 56 percent of Americans saw cargo transported by air, sea or land as extremely or very vulnerable to malicious or terrorist attack.
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Add in the element of a malicious and intentionally designed attack, and the problem could be catastrophic.
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More than 10 million people thought to have accounts with Electronic Arts's (EA) Origin game store are at risk from a hack attack that swaps games for malicious code, researchers say.
Lewis says that an attack can be simple and crude: malicious software placed on a thumb drive and left in a parking lot can wreak havoc on a computer system.
South Korea's communication watchdog said the attacks were caused by malicious code, but it didn't have any evidence linking the attack to North Korea.
They have not been able to establish how exactly the hackers broke into the system, but believe it may have been through a so-called spear-phishing attack, where an employee clicked on an email or link containing malicious code.
In this particular attack, 11 million computer systems were said to have been compromised by multiple variants of malicious software known as Yahos.
Unlike a typical bot-net, which hijacks PCs with malicious software, that network of unwitting proxies wouldn't leave anything behind on victims' machines, making the attack harder to trace.
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