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Among the 63 serious attacks four affected the nuclear industry
Apr 26, 2015 - 6:37 PM
The Spanish Government detected nearly 18,000 cyber attacks last year
Among the 63 serious attacks four affected the nuclear industry
Apr 26, 2015 - 6:37 PM
Spain’s response to cyber attacks is split between the Interior and Industry ministries after they signed an agreement In October 2014 for collaboration to improve the fight against cybercrime and cyber-terrorism, two crimes which greatly worry security experts.
The serious attacks are generally made against energy installations, transport networks, and computer networks and these attacks can use techniques such as ‘denial of service’ where a computer network is flooded with so much traffic that it fails. Also viruses and corrupt software can access the control of networks.
Between the two ministries 100 experts are dedicated to this fight and last year they monitored some 18,000 incidents, of which 6,700 were of unauthorised access, 4,270 fraud and 1,745 were virus attacks.
At the start of this year a higher risk was introduced given the increasing Jihadist threat. One of the worst incidents last year came in February when an energy company suffered a distributed denial of service which infected many computers with a Trojan virus, which led to continued requests from the central server which crashed as a result. It was out for three hours after 119 million connections were related to the denial of service.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, reported Spain is the third country in the world to suffer the most cyber attacks, after the United States and the United Kingdom. He said across the world the number of cyber attacks were some 70,000 against public administration, citizens and businesses and last year in Spain twenty hackers from China and Russia tried to penetrate the computers and telephones of ministers and secretaries of State will malicious emails designed to intercept communications.
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The serious attacks are generally made against energy installations, transport networks, and computer networks and these attacks can use techniques such as ‘denial of service’ where a computer network is flooded with so much traffic that it fails. Also viruses and corrupt software can access the control of networks.
Between the two ministries 100 experts are dedicated to this fight and last year they monitored some 18,000 incidents, of which 6,700 were of unauthorised access, 4,270 fraud and 1,745 were virus attacks.
At the start of this year a higher risk was introduced given the increasing Jihadist threat. One of the worst incidents last year came in February when an energy company suffered a distributed denial of service which infected many computers with a Trojan virus, which led to continued requests from the central server which crashed as a result. It was out for three hours after 119 million connections were related to the denial of service.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, reported Spain is the third country in the world to suffer the most cyber attacks, after the United States and the United Kingdom. He said across the world the number of cyber attacks were some 70,000 against public administration, citizens and businesses and last year in Spain twenty hackers from China and Russia tried to penetrate the computers and telephones of ministers and secretaries of State will malicious emails designed to intercept communications.
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