Posted on 02/19/2007 5:07:46 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks, Netwarcom officials said.
Attacks coming from China, probably with government support, far outstrip other attackers in terms of volume, proficiency and sophistication, said a senior Netwarcom official, who spoke to reporters on background Feb 12. The conflict has reached the level of a campaign-style, force-on-force engagement, he said.
“They will exploit anything and everything,” the senior official said, referring to the Chinese hackers’ strategy. And although it is impossible to confirm the involvement of China’s government, the attacks are so deliberate, “it’s hard to believe it’s not government-driven,” the official said.
The motives of Chinese hackers run the gamut, including technology theft, intelligence gathering, exfiltration, research on DOD operations and the creation of dormant presences in DOD networks for future action, the official said.
A recent Chinese military white paper states that China plans to be able to win an “informationized war” by the middle of this century. Overall, China seeks a position of power to ensure its freedom of action in international affairs and the ability to influence the global economy, the senior official said.
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Ominous article. Between China and radical Islam, we live in a dangerous world.
Add Russia to that list.
how do you know we're not?
I got a better idea. It's called a null route.
Nothing comes from there but SPAM and trouble anyway.
This is not really news. We expect them to do this, given their history. The Russians are probably doing the same thing, and if the Islamofacist morons ever leave the 7th century, they would do the same thing when they weren't trying to post videos of beheadings.
And I will bet we are probing the crap out of their stuff as well.
Yeah, and we wasted the 90s since we were 'at peace' and Clinton just slashed the military so he could increase domestic spending without busting the deficit further. And we used things like the Toricelli Amendment to finish the job the Church Commission started in crippling the Intelligence Community since 'we had no more enemies'.
LOL, great minds think alike.
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