US aerospace giant Boeing is under “continuous” cyber attack, but there has been no breach of its databases, a senior executive said yesterday.
The admission by Boeing Defense, Space and Security chief executive Dennis Muilenburg, comes as Japanese electronics giant Sony recovers from a series of online incursions while Google also said that it too has been hit.
“We, as are other global enterprises, are under a continuous state of cyber attack and cyber probing,” Muilenburg said.
“We recognize the reality of global business today, is that cyber attacks are part of business and we’ve been prepared for that so this is not a surprising environment to us,” he told a media briefing in Singapore.
Muilenburg declined to say how often the attacks took place or the people behind it, but said Boeing’s investment to protect its systems from hackers has paid off.
“I can tell you that the defensive capabilities that we’ve built up are very effective and give us confidence, and our enterprise is secure because of that investment,” he said.
Sony was last month forced to shut down some of its online services after the details of more than 100 million account holders were stolen.
On Thursday, hackers claimed to have compromised more than 1 million passwords, e-mail addresses and other information from SonyPictures.com.
In Thursday’s attack the hackers posted lists of thousands of the pilfered Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo and other e-mail addresses and passwords on Pastebin, where they were publicly accessible.
Earlier this week Google said a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted the Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television. Yoon said he had no choice but to resort to such a measure in order to safeguard free and constitutional order, saying opposition parties have taken hostage of the parliamentary process to throw the country into a crisis. "I declare martial law to protect the free Republic of Korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people, and to protect the free
A string of rape and assault allegations against the son of Norway’s future queen have plunged the royal family into its “biggest scandal” ever, wrapping up an annus horribilis for the monarchy. The legal troubles surrounding Marius Borg Hoiby, the 27-year-old son born of a relationship before Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s marriage to Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon, have dominated the Scandinavian country’s headlines since August. The tall strapping blond with a “bad boy” look — often photographed in tuxedos, slicked back hair, earrings and tattoos — was arrested in Oslo on Aug. 4 suspected of assaulting his girlfriend the previous night. A photograph
The US deployed a reconnaissance aircraft while Japan and the Philippines sent navy ships in a joint patrol in the disputed South China Sea yesterday, two days after the allied forces condemned actions by China Coast Guard vessels against Philippine patrol ships. The US Indo-Pacific Command said the joint patrol was conducted in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone by allies and partners to “uphold the right to freedom of navigation and overflight “ and “other lawful uses of the sea and international airspace.” Those phrases are used by the US, Japan and the Philippines to oppose China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the
‘GOOD POLITICS’: He is a ‘pragmatic radical’ and has moderated his rhetoric since the height of his radicalism in 2014, a lecturer in contemporary Islam said Abu Mohammed al-Jolani is the leader of the Islamist alliance that spearheaded an offensive that rebels say brought down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ended five decades of Baath Party rule in Syria. Al-Jolani heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is rooted in Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda. He is a former extremist who adopted a more moderate posture in order to achieve his goals. Yesterday, as the rebels entered Damascus, he ordered all military forces in the capital not to approach public institutions. Last week, he said the objective of his offensive, which saw city after city fall from government control, was to
RSS