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Chinese hackers poke the Bayer, but German giant says it withstood attack

Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: Korean Chinese speaking cybercriminals?

Why were Bayer employees connecting to game servers on company time?

German law actually lets people use company computers for personal stuff: for example booking holidays, checking the weather and you have to have grounds for suspicion to check up on this.

Bayer has had a Cyber Defence team for quite a few years now, partly down to legal requirements and partly down to concerted DDoS attempts in 2010 and 2011 and the increasing numbers of phishing attempts that proved the need for a dedicated team and for liasoning with the police on attacks.

Of course, talk to anyone in security and they'll admit there are two types of companies: those that know they've been hacked and those that don't know it yet.

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