Oil giants downed by Chinese hackers named

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The Western energy companies at the centre of the alleged ‘Night Dragon’ attacks by Chinese hackers uncovered earlier this month have been named as Exxon, Shell, BP, Marathon, ConocoPhillips and oil services company Baker Hughes, according to US reports.

The attacks were revealed by McAfee last month, which documented a sustained, long-running and ultimately successful campaign by Chinese-based attackers to penetrate major energy companies in order to steal sensitive documents.

An unsourced report for Bloomberg has named the companies involved which in truth is more akin to running down a list of the usual suspects. McAfee’s document on Night Dragon left little to the imagination in working out which companies the attackers had targeted during the campaign.

The latest report also alleges that the companies did not disclose the attacks to regulators which could have one of two explanations. Either the companies did not realise what had been going on until recently or the attacks targeted proprietary data not considered to be of regulatory significance.

http://news.techworld.com/security/3262638/oil-giants-downed-by-chinese-hackers-named/?olo=rss

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1. Hmmm Read my post I just did on Russia & China's crude oil link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x515551

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Now this really gets interesting doesn't it?

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2. I had seen your post earlier and thought that yes this does get

interesting now. Clearly there is a realignment of world power going on with the coming of globalization. How that really shakes out in the end is anybody's guess but I think it's safe to say that we are not going to be top dog anymore. A lot of the world has just gotten tired of our shit.