Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked 96
wiredmikey writes "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Japan's largest defense contractor, has been a victim of a cyber attack, according to a report from the company. The company said attackers had gained access to company computer systems, with some reports saying the attacks targeted its submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component businesses. According to The Yomiuri newspaper, approximately 80 systems had been infected with malware at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, as well as manufacturing and research and development sites, including Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works and Nagoya Guidance & Propulsion System Works. 'We can't rule out small possibilities of further information leakage but so far crucial data about our products or technologies have been kept safe,' a Mitsubishi Heavy spokesman told Reuters. 'We've found out that some system information such as IP addresses have been leaked and that's creepy enough,' the spokesman added."
A soft perimeter is a good thing. (Score:3, Interesting)
Letting hackers half way into your system especially when you're dealing with state sponsored hacking groups or corporate espionage is not a horrible idea so long as you make it work for you.
After all even though they're in your systems you have have an opportunity to log them in a way that you don't if they're just scrapping on the outside. Build a multi-tiered defense and let them get all the information that you don't actually care about. For example... promotional information and publicly released data. You can also have dummy files thrown around with garbage data filled in rather then the real specs. Have fun with it. But the really secret stuff... consider not having that on the network at all. If you're talking about top secret information... maybe that calls for an armed courier.