On October 13th, 2011, Erica Thinesen reported for ITProPortal on how defense contractor Raytheon revealed that it had come under a cloud-based cyber attack aimed at stealing company information. Vincent Blake, the head of Raytheon’s cyber security department, claimed this was the first time hackers used a cloud based technique to launch a cyber attack. In essence, the cloud was the enabler to the attack. The attack was unsuccessful. Raytheon claimed that it has experienced an increase in cyber attacks ever since it started supplying missiles to Taiwan; Raytheon suspects Taiwan's "country next door."
One guess as to who that would be.
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