Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Climate economist's email security breach

Link to the article; Channel 4 News

By Tom Clarke

Exclusive: Channel 4 News can reveal that renowned climate change economist, Lord Stern, had his email targeted by a virus.

The British government's climate change guru, Lord Stern, has had his emails sabotaged, Channel 4 News can reveal.

Lord Stern, author of the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change and vocal advocate of the danger of man-made climate change, recently left government to head the London School of Economic's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

The Institute confirmed to Channel 4 News that Lord Stern's email account was targeted last week.

A trojan horse computer virus was embedded in his account which then sent itself to other contacts in the economist's inbox.