{"id":247,"date":"2011-05-20T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=247"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:26:20","slug":"united-kingdom-treasury-hacked-via-amazons-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom Treasury hacked via Amazon&#039;s cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Anonymous use of Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) has enabled foreign intelligence agencies to conduct sustained malicious attacks on the United Kingdom Treasury.\nOne attack was performed by injecting a malicious attachment into an official email.  [caption id=\"attachment_248\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" caption=\"\u201cTo the recipient it would have looked like the attachment had been sent twice... Fortunately, our systems identified this attack and stopped it.\u201d\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/george_osborne_hmtreasuryuk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/george_osborne_hmtreasuryuk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"George Osborne, HM Treasury United Kingdom\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]UK Treasury Chancellor George Obsborne recently speaking at Google\u2019s Zeitgeist conference said, &#8220;it averaged out as more than one attempt per day&#8221;.\nThe Treasury refused to expand on which countries were believed to be behind most of the cyber security threats.\n<em>\u2018There\u2019s no honour among spies \u2013 and for those bidding for multi-billion pound contracts, it may be in your national economic interest to get some additional information.\n\u2018We shouldn\u2019t fool ourselves \u2013 everyone is doing it, including British secret services, so it\u2019s vital we also have the right protection in place.\u2019<\/em>\nMr Osborne has consistently reiterated plans to fund a \u00a3650million national cyber security programme.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaches","category-vulnerabilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}