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posted by janrinok on Monday December 26 2016, @07:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the pointing-fingers dept.

The FBI is investigating how hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for several years beginning in 2010 in a breach senior FDIC officials believe was sponsored by China's military, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The security breach, in which hackers gained access to dozens of computers including the workstation for former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, has also been the target of a probe by a congressional committee.

The FDIC is one of three federal agencies that regulate commercial banks in the United States. It oversees confidential plans for how big banks would handle bankruptcy and has access to records on millions of individual American deposits.

Last month, the banking regulator allowed congressional staff to view internal communications between senior FDIC officials related to the hacking, two people who took part in the review said. In the exchanges, the officials referred to the attacks as having been carried out by Chinese military-sponsored hackers, they said. The staff was not allowed to keep copies of the exchanges, which did not explain why the FDIC officials believe the Chinese military was behind the breach.

Source: Reuters


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @10:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @10:57AM (#446029)

    unsafe computing like visiting sites without javascript blockers

    Javascript is awesome, so much more convenient than apping a native app for every app platform in existence. You antiscriptic bigot.

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:59AM

    by anubi (2828) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:59AM (#446264) Journal

    I'll tell ya what.... get the Congress to re-negotiate the DMCA. Tell them about copyright. A book is readable by anyone who cares to. And it can be copyrighted.

    When one fails to release source code, then the stuff that is unreadable as it stands has no protection whatsoever with one exception - that - in exchange for payment for a copy of the code, the rightsholder thereof assumes full responsibility for what that code does.

    No different than if I go to a burger joint, they do not have to list what's in the burger, if they used GMO or whatnot, but if it makes people sick, someone is going to have some 'splainin' to do and some bills to pay.

    Yes, I am an antiscriptic bigot. You may change your mind too if you had your machine hijacked by one of these and had to spend quite a bit of your time getting to the bottom of it.

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]