If a TBTF Bank Lost Its Quant Code to Chinese Hackers and No One Knew, Would We Still Have a Functioning Market?

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 1, 2011 6:33 am

Bloomberg has an excellent catch from the HB Gary emails, revealing that Morgan Stanley was one of the 20-200 companies targeted by the Chinese-based Aurora hack in 2009. Morgan Stanley experienced a “very sensitive” break-in to its network by the same China-based hackers who attacked Google Inc.’s computers more than a year ago, according to [...]

“Tactics Developed for Use against Terrorists May Have Been Unleashed against American Citizens”

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 1, 2011 4:27 am

Hmmm. “Tactics developed for use on terrorists may have been unleashed against citizens.” That sounds like something I would have written about the HB Gary scandal. Twice. It’s nice to see some members of Congress understand what the entire problem with this scandal is about. In a letter to be released Tuesday, Rep. Hank Johnson [...]

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