Security News > 2011 > February > Nasdaq Hackers After Sensitive Inside Information, Not Trading System
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Nasdaq-Hackers-After-Sensitive-Inside-Information-Not-Trading-System-490573/ By Fahmida Y. Rashid eWEEK.com 2011-02-08 The attackers who ârepeatedlyâ breached Nasdaq OMX systems over the past year were most likely stealing insider information to use for financial trades, according to a security expert. Nasdaq OMX confirmed Feb. 5 that its systems had been breached by hackers and malware had been found on one of its servers, but assured investors that the system that controls trades werenât affected and sensitive information stored in its Directorâs Desk Web portal had not been compromised. According to Tom Kellermann, a former computer security official at the World Bank and current vice president of security awareness and government affairs at Core Security Technologies, hackers may not have been interested in the trading system at all. The goal of hackers is to âstay inâ the network as long as they can, he said. The ârealityâ is that there is no point to hack into the trading platform, Kellermann said. Itâs actually more beneficial for hackers to stay away from the trading system and to consider other applications, according to Kellermann. [...]