Posted on 12/01/2015 7:07:31 PM PST by naturalman1975
THE Bureau of Meteorology has had its sensitive systems compromised by a major cyber attack being blamed on China.
The ABC reports the breach is "massive", with the bureau owning one of the country's largest supercomputers.
Its systems have a link to the Department of Defence at Russell Offices in Canberra, the report says.
The cost of fixing the breach has not been determined, and the time needed to repair it is also unclear.
The weather bureau's services are vital in warning of weather conditions associated with bushfires, thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, flooding, rain, and dangerous winds.
They are also essential to the economic livelihood of the nation, assisting the construction, resources, agriculture and marine industries and those who keep our international trade routes open.
The nation's defence forces depend on a wide range of the weather bureau's products, ranging from specialist forecasts for pilots to ocean forecasts for naval operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
What did the Australian government do to China this week? Someone say they need to turn off the power for the sake of climate change?
And this was likely a highly protected system.
Taking classified information off of Hillary’s unsecured server would have been a piece of cake for the Chicoms.
Proving once again that any software can be hacked, bar none.
BOMB THE BASTARDS!!
John McCain, dat you?
Cyber attacks are increasing ....
... because Global Warming.
Wonder what their reason is.
No, Likely a very vulnerable, unprotected system.
Meteorologists often do not see their computers as systems likely to be attacked.
It happened to U.S. meteorological systems I was aware of a decade ago. It was not Chicoms.
Security was significantly increased after that.
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