Source: http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/cyberattack-hits-uva/article_59b0454c-42c7-11e5-88ae-53d47ac2265c.html

The University of Virginia shut down access to many of its information technology systems Friday in response to a cyberattack that originated in China, the university announced in a release.

The attack specifically targeted the email accounts of two employees whose work is connected with China, university officials told The Daily Progress. However, the identities and departments of those employees have not been released. They remain employed at the university, officials said Friday.

Forensic examination has indicated that personal information, including Social Security numbers, banking information and personal health records, was not accessed during the breach. There is also no evidence that any of the university’s research or similarly sensitive information was accessed, the university said in a release.

The university waited two months to announce the breach to “best protect against future attacks,” officials said in a news release Friday, “we notified the community as soon as we were confident that notification would not jeopardize our efforts to secure systems.”
“It is important that the hackers remain unaware of our action to investigate this event and protect against it,” the university’s release states. “If the university had not taken this course of action, the situation could have worsened.”
The university launched a system security upgrade at 5 p.m. Friday, which is expected to finish by Sunday evening — at that time, all of the university’s system users, including students and faculty, will be required to change their login passwords.

During the system upgrade, the university community will be notified of any emergency situations via several different channels, including fire alarms, sirens, UVa’s social media accounts and U.Va. Alerts, a system that notifies registered users of threats via text message.

My sister goes UVA, so this interested me a bit.

Are cyberattacks going to increase in the future, even with the headway the cyber security industry has made recently?

digital rape.

Why isn't this in serious?

As long as digital information remains valuable, people will try to acquire it.
I don't know anything about cyber security, so I'm in the dark about this stuff.
It's something all of us should probably know something about.

Quote from: LC on August 14, 2015, 08:45:29 PM

Quote from: Fun Timer on August 14, 2015, 08:41:13 PM

Why isn't this in serious?

Because you don't have to put news stories and political stuff in serious.

oh ok

I accidentally made the thread here

and from the trailer Monster looks like something promising. Can't decide if I want to watch this first or Evangelion

Counter UAV deployed.

Or whatever the appropriate killstreak is, I forget.

Quote from: Sigma617 on August 15, 2015, 01:25:35 AM

Counter UAV deployed.

Or whatever the appropriate killstreak is, I forget.

ENEMY AC130 ABOVE

EMP DEPLOYED, ENEMY ELECTRONICS ARE DOWN.