Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers

UNDER THREAT: Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organiaations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers. — Reuters

SINGAPORE: Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organisations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers. 

While many Internet users face attacks via e-mail designed to steal personal data, journalists were "massively over-represented" among such targets, said Shane Huntley, a security software engineer at Google.