Cyber-attack

A cyber attack or a cyber attack is the deliberate attack on larger, more important for a specific infrastructure computer networks from the outside.

For the prevention of cyber attacks, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has set up an information portal

Known cyber attacks

• In November 2009 documents by researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU ) of the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom) were at a hacker incident on climate research center of the University of East Anglia, referred to in the media as ClimateGate, stolen by hackers and posted on the Internet. The incident and the subsequent charges against the concerned climate scientists of allegations of scientific dishonesty excited directly ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen stir in blogs and found mention in the international media. Documents about 1,073 emails and 3,485 other files come from a period from 1996 to 2009 and are noisy Philip D. Jones, Director of CRU, genuine.

• Operation Shady RAT (English, about " dodgy rat " or " hidden remote access " ) are called hacker attacks, in which from about 2006 to 2011, at least 72 companies, organizations and governments have been systematically spied world.

• On 27 April 2007, the Internet attacks on Estonia, which were directed against Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries and radio broadcasters began. The attacks were mostly denial of service attacks with use of the botnet and put practically the whole country lame. Estonia is considered the internetaffinste country in Europe. On 20 March 2009, has Konstantin Goloskokov, an official of the pro-government youth organization Nashi Russian, announced as the mastermind of the attacks. The truth of this statement is controversial.

• 2011 broke the German group No Name Crew ( also: n0n4m3 cr3w ) into the IT systems of the Federal Police ( Germany ) and duty. The German group claimed that they had been months earlier overheard the entire communication between the two authorities. On July 7, was published in 2011 about 23.40 clock on the website of the "No-Name Crew" software packages and related application notes and use data from the " tracking system " " paip tracking server " ( PATRA ). From the area of customs investigation service anonymous GPS tracking data, the selection of the tracking device used numbers, directory name, and the name of the relevant services could be viewed. This was announced that, inter alia, an officer used the system to monitor his daughter.

• On March 20, 2013, came to a cyber attack against South Korean banks and television. At the same time by about 14.00 clock (06.00 clock CET) there were massive network failures. The Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea raised the alert level for cyber threats to the value of three of a five-point scale.