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Cyber Attack on Saudi Aramco

International Journal of Management and Information Technology

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Title Cyber Attack on Saudi Aramco
 
Creator Alshathry, Sahar
 
Subject computer science
cyber attacks; security; Aramco
 
Description  Saudi Aramco is the largest oil production company in the entire world. It supplies almost almost 1/10th of the oil in the world. The economy of Saudi Arabia is highly dependent on the production of oil.Aramco got attacked by a virus  named Shamoon on 15th August 2012. It was one of the most disrupting cyber-attack that was carried out against the business. Shamoon had spread from the network of the company and it wiped out the hard drives of the computers. The virus infected almost thirty thousand of workstations during the mid of August .The paper will discus the impact of the cyber attack on the oil production on Saudi Aramco. In addition, the analysis and the mechanisms that the attackers used to launch the virus. This research explains how Saudi Aramco recovered form the cyber attack. 
 
Publisher CIRWORLD
 
Contributor King Saud University
 
Date 2016-12-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://cirworld.com/index.php/ijmit/article/view/5613
 
Source INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; Vol 11 No 5; 3037-3039
2278-5612
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://cirworld.com/index.php/ijmit/article/view/5613/5489
 
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