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Cyber attacks have broken free from their initial molds of carting off with consumer credit card numbers or stealing someone’s identity. The act of digitally digging into cyberspace has hit the U.S.Department of Health & Human Services and some of its 11 government agencies.
Are crackers targeting Big Pharma servers for their trade secrets?
Instead of hackers hounding out personal information for financial gain, they are looking to uncover data from pharmaceutical companies researching and developing devices and drugs.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been among the most targeted agency because of its role as both the starting point for bringing new products to market and the ending point for eventual approval or denial. Committee meetings, public hearings, test trials and other protocols along the way generate a long paper trail, and the bad guys see an opportunity to profit from it.
Read the complete article at Hacking Gains New Heights with Threat to Big Pharma