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Google claims 80% of news outlets are targeted by state-sponsored hackers

on Mar 31, 2014 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Google has published new research finding as much as 80 per cent of major news outlets are subjected to attacks from state-sponsored hackers.

The findings come from two Google engineers who presented their results to the Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, which found that journalists are ‘massively over-represented’ when it comes to being targeted by state-sponsored hackers.

Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire confirmed that they actively track the state actor’s attack its users, issuing a warning to those it believes have been subjected to such activities on their webmail login.

The Guardian has revealed that it is one of the news Read full story ›

Source: The Drum