Nortel Networks, a famous but defunct Canadian maker of telecom equipment (central office switches to be precise) was hacked ten years ago, really thoroughly hacked. Their customer lists, payroll, product plans, email, everything, had been a wide open book to the hackers for at least ten years. The hackers buried rootkits on Nortel computers, which are probably still active, and moving on to infect the companies that bought up parts of now dead Nortel. This was a cover story on the Wall St Journal the other day. And the story has turned up on the Web.
Not discussed. Did the hacking have anything to do with Nortel going bankrupt? Did Nortel's competitors learn what Nortel was bidding on a job and then under bid them? Did Nortel's competitors read Nortel's plans and duplicate Nortel's equipment?
Few suits understand or care about computer security. Suits need to understand that if the competition knows everything you know, you are gonna loose the business.
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