Posted on 05/28/2013 10:23:57 AM PDT by blam
Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Plans For Pretty Much The Entire US Military
Geoffrey Ingersoll
May 28, 2013, 11:11 AM
Hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems, according to a devastating classified report from a Pentagon advisor shared with the Washington Post.
Although the report from the Defense Science Board did not identify the hackers, senior military and industry officials with knowledge of the breaches say they come primarily from China, according to Ellen Nakashima of the Post.
A public version of the report released in January warned of an "existential cyber attack" with "potentially spectacular" effects.
Some of the more disturbing leaks include designs for cutting edge jets, missile systems, and electronic warfare technology.
Here's a partial list of compromised designs:
F-35
V-22
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD Missile Defense)
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (Patriot missile defense system)
AMRAAM (AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile)
Global Hawk (high altitude surveillance drone)
PII (email addresses, SSN, credit card numbers, passwords, etc.)
“That’s staggering,” Mark Stokes, executive director of the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank that focuses on Asia security issues, told the Washington Post. “These are all very critical weapons systems, critical to our national security. When I hear this in totality, it’s breathtaking.”
Evidently part of the big haul was schematics for small parts needed to set up manufacturing for these weapons systems. China apparently uses several different means to gain access to these Defense Systems, most of them utilizing what Information Security experts call "human engineering" — when manipulative emails or clever online con-men actually get victims to divulge information on their own.
From Quartz:
[One more convincing tactic is executed] by creating innocuous-looking companies and research institutes that reach out to US companies, researchers and universities under
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I guess that then they’ll have a “happy” military looking for ways to impose martial law on the locals.
Thank you Bill Clinton for empowering these turds and to all you globalist asshats that think we need to play nice with everyone and share our good fortune by educating them and giving them jobs (via tech jobs here or job through buying their crap) just so they can steal everything we create.
The US has never been so unprotected and unloved as she is right now. This administration needs to end and better men to step up. There seems to no longer be a such thing as National Security any longer.
Did they get the script for the gay wedding exchange of vows?
um... why would classified military information even be on a computer connected to the internet?
seriously.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that someone can’t hack a computer not connected to the internet.
I was going to say they do not have the plans to our most top secret weapon. The gays. I doubt if they can figure that one out.
So why were these plans on non secure networks? I guess it was those necessary H1b engineers the US needs so much over their own citizens. The United Statesof Corporate American where everything is sold for the right price.
BUMP
This was systematic. They knew what they were shopping for.
Ni hao,,,
Would it be too much to ask them to hack the IRS and delete all their files, or mine at least?
Once again, all this taking place on “O’s” watch. What an experience it has been!
How long will it take the US to recover, IF the US has the will to?
Bush II granted China permanent trade status.
This is simply another Cox Report. And the Chinese are right about what they said about the first one: The US had made two mistakes -- underestimating its own abilities in confidentiality and underestimating Chinese ability to develop military weapons.
Maybe if we bought all of our military stuff from china, instead of just parts and computers, then china wouldn’t feel the need to hack us. /s
hacked or been allowed to take...
Foorish Amelicans.
And note there is no angle in the story discussing how this happened with Obama as President. No connection to him.
Remember when everything, EVERYTHING bad or wrong that happened in the country was immediately Bush’s Fault?
Where’s that reporting tactic now? friking lib shills.
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