Hackers competition: Oracle and other large enterprises staff safety awareness needs to strengthen training

August 8 News, according to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, A competition at the world's largest hacking conference in Las Vegas this weekend shows why big companies are vulnerable to cyber criminals: staff training in safety is bad.

After a series of high-profile cyber attacks on large institutions such as Sony and the International Monetary Fund, many big companies are thought to have recently been particularly concerned about security.

Hackers who participated in the Friday and Saturday competitions found it easy to trick employees of big American companies into leaking information. Hackers can use this information to develop plans to attack these companies.

Competition hackers also let employees use their corporate computers to access hacker-recommended websites. If a hacker is a criminal hacker, these sites can install malware into the PC.

In one case, one of the hackers impersonating a company's IT department staff and persuaded a large enterprise employee to provide him with his PC configuration. This data can help hackers decide what type of malware to use in an attack.

DEFCON meeting is a group of benevolent hackers organized meetings, in part to promote research on security vulnerabilities, to enable enterprises to repair these vulnerabilities. The contest, organised by the so-called white hat hacker, shows companies how weak their safety is and pushes companies to better educate their employees about the risks of hacking.

In this competition, the company that the employee submits the most information is Oracle. Other targets of the competition include Apple, At&t, ConAgra Foods, Danone, Symantec, Sysco, United Airlines and Verizon Communications.

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