Chinese Hackers Strike Energy Companies 124
angry tapir writes "Chinese hackers working regular business hours shifts stole sensitive intellectual property from energy companies for as long as four years using relatively unsophisticated intrusion methods in an operation dubbed 'Night Dragon,' according to a new report from security vendor McAfee."
Reader IT.luddite links this informative PDF from CERT.
Re:Oh, I Get It (Score:4, Informative)
Tiamat was a Babylonian chaos monster and ocean goddess. No ancient texts described her as dragon-like, that is a D&D invention.
Though Tiamat is often described by modern authors as a sea serpent or dragon, no ancient texts exist in which there is a clear association with those kinds of creatures, and the identification is debated.[8] The Enûma Elish specifically states that Tiamat did give birth to dragons and serpents, but they are included among a larger and more general list of monsters including scorpion men and merpeople, none of which imply that any of the children resemble the mother or are even limited to aquatic creatures.
In the Enûma Elish her physical description includes a tail, a thigh, "lower parts" (which shake together), a belly, an udder, ribs, a neck, a head, a skull, eyes, nostrils, a mouth, and lips. She has insides (possibly "entrails"), a heart, arteries, and blood.
The strictly modern depiction of Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game inspired by earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters, such as Lotan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat [wikipedia.org]
Re:Unsophisticated intrusion methods (Score:1, Informative)
Anyone that cares about cookies for "security" or whatever is a moron that has been duped by FUD.
Disabling Javascript, sure, but cookies? Lolidiot