Were last year’s cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco worse than reported?
From: Foreign Policy
Posted By John Reed
A U.S. official dropped a very interesting quote on Killer Apps the other day.
As we discussed the growing trend of destructive cyber attacks, the strikes against Middle Eastern oil firms Saudi Aramco (its HQ is shown above) and Rasgas of Qatar that rendered about 30,000 computers useless last August came up.
The official then mentioned that these attacks may have been more damaging than reported.
“I was just in Saudi a while ago and found that the attacks were probably worse than we originally had believed, from talking to some of the folks there,” said the official.
And that’s it. He wouldn’t elaborate when asked for more details.
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