Hackers take aim at World Bank

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Saturday 11 October 2008 at 04:55:00 Network under constant attack, claims report The World Bank's internal networks have been compromisd by outside attackers at least six times in the last year, according to a recent report. Fox News cited internal memos in reporting that the bank had been attacked at least twice from IP addresses originating in China and that last spring the network was hit with a massive spyware infection. The published memos also outline an attack from July in which at least five World Bank servers containing sensitive information were compromised. The memo recommended that each of the servers be completely erased and restored to eliminate any malicious code and that security protocols be updated to... [read full story]