US officials claim China's military hacked into Pentagon network
US officials told the Financial Times today that China's military hacked into the Pentagon's computer network three months ago. The reported attack would amount to to the greatest pwnage yet of DoD computers:
Link (Thanks, Robbo)The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.
Current and former officials have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the People’s Liberation Army.
One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a “very high level of confidence...trending towards total certainty” that the PLA was responsible. The defence ministry in Beijing declined to comment on Monday.
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Cyberspace intelligence war is on. Surely America is able to come out with a top notch anti hack defensive system? The free world security is surely threatened with modern information technology as with privacy on our very own personal data.
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In other words, the DOD was hacked by the Chinese military and of course, we won't do anything about it because we rely too much on China exporting cheap goods to keep the consumer masses happy.
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If the allegations are true is it intelligence gathering or an invasion?
This is such old news.
I saw this coming in Jan. of 2005:
http://www.tian.cc/2005/01/chinese-military-train-soldiers-to-be.html
This could be a distraction away from how terrible of a job the Bush Admins. are doing right now.
I really can't picture our military or intelligence services As They Currently Exist being able to nimbly or effectively counter this sort of thing.
They might be able to put up walls, mind you, and wire the entire country with telescreens, but they systematically unequipped to wage 21st century information war, or cybah-war.
The brilliant but (hiatus-enjoying? burned out? got a real jobbing?) Patrick Farley wrote an utterly amazing alternate-history Afghan War called The Spiders. In it, 9/11 happened on 9/12, on President Al Gore's match. He puts the country on a war footing . . . an open-participation cyberwar that has civilians controlling little robot spies. Through their eyes we see Taliban draftees and oppressed Afghan woman being subverted by a savvy information campaign. One spider finds Osama bin Laden complaining about inflamed hemorrhoids to his son.
Gosh...is a "no shit" in order? Let's clue folks in. All of those persistent recon sweeps from Chinese universities you see on your IDS/IPS? The hacking probes from PLA controlled companies. Those aren't some bored Chinese teenager. Those are agents of the Chinese government. This has been going on (at least in my world) for a decade or so, and has become SOP for industrial and military espionage.
Um, let's see...we don't have several thousand people trying to hack into the Chinese military system every day? Every country in the world with computer capability is doing the same thing, trying to hack into other country's governmental, scientific and business networks, those of both friends and foes; it would be incredibly naive to think otherwise. What would anyone think could be done about it? Tell them they've been caught? They already know that. Tell them they shouldn't do it? Why shouldn't they? It's become part of every country's defense network, including ours.
Right... c'mon, the smart guys and gals in the PRC service are only doing their job. Just as the smart guys and gals at NSA or MI6 or whatever... If you have a server online anywhere, chances are your logs will show traces of port-scans and other probes originating from Chinese IP ranges.
Nothing new, except from the part that the DoD actually admit it happened. I suspect budget negotiations are coming up.
The article went on to say that the DoD does this to PLA as well and that it is SOP.
Oh, the same happened to german gouvernment, too..