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Microsoft Promises To Defend World Chess Champion From Russian Hackers (telegraph.co.uk)
"World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has asked Microsoft to protect him against Russian hackers, as he expects to become the target of cyber attacks launched before the match with grandmaster Sergey Karjakin next week," reports Softpedia. An anonymous reader shares more details from The Telegraph:
The man dubbed the 'Mozart of chess' has spent months using high-powered chess computers to meticulously prepare moves for his grueling 12-game match against challenger Sergey Karjakin. But any leak of his analysis would hand a significant advantage to Crimean-born Karjakin, the fiercely-patriotic darling of Russian president Vladimir Putin... "The element of surprise is vitally important in chess," explained the Vibeke Hansen, from Microsoft Norway... She said Microsoft Norway will "ensure that he has a safe training environment and secure communication and collaboration tools".
From when I ran a honeypot server in a dmz for a while, I detected a pattern in where the attackers were from, and how flexible and smart they were.
Disregarding script kiddies and botnets, visitors from Russian and German IP addresses were at the top of the list, snooping around manually and looking at configuration files and kernel parameters, and sometimes recognizing that they were in a honeypot. Visitors from Indian and American IP addresses were at the bottom, doing brain dead stuff like uploading and trying to run x86 programs on a mips computer, and when it failed, trying it again as if it would magically work the second or third time...