Posted on 06/02/2009 11:58:03 PM PDT by Cindy
May 13th, 2009 China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities? Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 6:23 am
Categories: Browsers, Complex Attacks, Governments, Hackers, Kernel-level Exploits... Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software...
Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another’s IT infrastructure.
Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it on systems managing the critical infrastructure it successfully undermines the offensive cyber warfare capabilities developed by adversaries designed to be used primarily against Linux, UNIX and Windows.
That’s exactly what China is doing right now with their hardened OS Kylin according to Kevin G. Coleman, Senior Fellow and Strategic Management Consultant with the Technolytics Institute who presented his viewpoint in a hearing at the U.S. – China Economic and Security Review Commission
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.zdnet.com ...
Related links:
www.uscc.gov/hearings/2009hearings/written_testimonies/09_04_30_wrts/09_04_30_coleman_statement.pdf
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2009/06/summarizing-zero-days-posts-for-may.html
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China already has the United States by the financial short hairs. It’s just a matter of time until their cyber-warfare and conventional-warfare capabilities rival (or exceed) ours. Once they feel ready, they’ll give Taiwan an ultimatum: surrender or be invaded and occupied. Three guesses aren’t required to know what Taiwan will have to do once it becomes clear that the United States won’t be honoring its pledge to back Taiwan up against China.
OPINION:
You’re probably right... time will tell.
Did they write it in something other than C++ or C?
If not, I’m certainly not worried.
I don’t know Dave.
I’m the only one in our family that is not a tech-wise aka a geek.
Oh goodie! Now instead of having to hack a multitude of different operating systems and embedded systems, U.S. government hackers will only have to hack one lots of times.
Yawn - old news, and based on an existing open source product.
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