This article is about how hackers attacked Saudi Arabia's oil company called Saudi Aramco. The state-owned company valued at $7 trillion. Last August 15, over 55,ooo Saudi Arabia Employees were at home getting ready to celebrate the Muslim holiday. A computer virus started to attack the system at exactly 11:o8. The computer virus started erasing 75% of the data the "Aramco's corporate PCs, documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, files, replacing everything with an image of a burning American flag."
"U.S officials say that Iran was behind the attack."
After the virus was stopped, more than 3o,ooo computers were useless.
"It proved you don't have to be sophisticated to do a lot of damage," said Richard Clarke, a former white house counterterrorism official. "There are lots of targets in the U.S. where they could do the same thing. The attacks were intended to say: 'If you mess with us, you can expect retaliation.' "
A defense secretary says that the United States is facing a "cyber Pearl Harbor," which is making Washington worried.
The masterminds of the cyberwar are China and Iran. They are the ones who are doing most of the attacking. The United States don't start the war but will retaliate if need be. China's government has been trying to steal information the Pentagon. Intelligence officials think that Iran is responsible for the attacks on Wells Fargo and PNC bank.
I think that it's really stupid, these cyber attacks. I think that the U.S. should just try to create something to prevent these cyber attacks. They are easy to do, if your intelligent, and not much to prevent them. To protect their information, and to keep it from happening again.
