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10 years of breach

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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.

 

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