Hackers sell access to military and government websites2011-01-24 10:11 by DanielaTags: hackers, Imperva, security
Dozens of military, government and education websites have been hacked and are up for sale, according to researchers from Imperva's Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII). According to a team led by Noa Bar Yosef, Imperva's senior security strategist, high-profile sites such as the official Italian government website (http://itcgcesaro.gov.it), the Department of Defense Pharmacoeconomic centre (http://pec.ha.osd.mil/) and even the US Army, Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) (http://cecom.army.mil ) are available. In a security blog posting, Rob Rachwald of Imperva says that the hacker has put up a range of sites for anything between $55 and $499. Imperva's research team also claims to have discovered that the hacker was also offering personal information from the hacked websites at $20 per 1000 records. Read more -here-
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