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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Law - Hackers reportedly targeting law firms via e-mail
An AP story, reported by Lolita C. Baldor, is headed "FBI says hackers targeting law firms, PR companies." The story begins:
WASHINGTON — Hackers are increasingly targeting law firms and public relations companies with a sophisticated e-mail scheme that breaks into their computer networks to steal sensitive data, often linked to large corporate clients doing business overseas.The FBI has issued an advisory that warns companies of "noticeable increases" in efforts to hack into the law firms' computer systems — a trend that cyber experts say began as far back as two years ago but has grown dramatically.
In many cases, the intrusions are what cyber security experts describe as "spear phishing," attacks that come through personalized spam e-mails that can slip through common defenses and appear harmless because they have subject lines appropriate to a person's business and appear to come from a trusted source.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 17, 2009 10:09 AM
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