Cyber News and Network security

The phenomenon of high-level cyber attacks in the United States still continues after the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) asserts that, one of their internal Web site hackers infiltrated.

"The Federal Reserve System to realize that the information obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities in the product temporary vendor site," said a spokesman for the Fed. "Burglary is immediately repaired shortly after the discovery, and no longer a problem. Incident did not affect operations of critical Federal Reserve system," he continued.

According to Reuters, it seems hackers to access the data associated with a specific individual. This attack comes from the Anonymous hacker group that claims to have published on Sunday login account and other personal information of more than 4,000 U.S. Bank account executive. The group allegedly obtained the data from the computer of the Federal Reserve.

It remains unclear whether the two things go together. Government officials did not explain which websites hackers attacked. However, according to Reuters, the data are likely to be attacked by the internal contact database bank for use during natural disasters.

Hacking attacks on the U.S. central bank came after hackers ongoing phenomenon in the U.S.. U.S. Department of Energy today also had reportedly suffered hacking attacks that penetrate internal systems and data of their employees. Not only that, last week, the hackers also hit several U.S. media.

(Cnet)