Posted on 10/01/2012 8:30:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bill Gertz has the grim news in the Washington Free Beacon:
Hackers linked to China's government broke into one of the U.S. government's most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.
One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing's most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks.
Disclosure of the cyber attack also comes amid heightened tensions in Asia, as the Pentagon moved two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups and Marine amphibious units near waters by Japan's Senkaku islands.
China and Japan-the United States' closest ally in Asia and a defense treaty partner-are locked in a heated maritime dispute over the Senkakus, which China claims as its territory.
U.S. officials familiar with reports of the White House hacking incident said it took place earlier this month and involved unidentified hackers, believed to have used computer servers in China, who accessed the computer network used by the White House Military Office (WHMO), the president's military office in charge of some of the government's most sensitive communications, including strategic nuclear commands. The office also arranges presidential communications and travel, and inter-government teleconferences involving senior policy and intelligence officials.
An Obama administration national security official said: "This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network."
Spear phishing is a cyber attack that uses disguised emails that seek to convince recipients of a specific organization to provide confidential information. Spear phishing in the past has been linked to China and other states with sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities. The official described the type of attack as "not infrequent" and said there were unspecified "mitigation measures in place."
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Good point - hadn’t thought of it that way. Somebody should tell George Noory!
Drip... drip... drip.
Unclassified network. There SHOULD be nothing sensitive to national security anywhere on that network. With this administration, you can not be sure of that.
Media says “yawn.”
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Now lets think this out.
Are you saying we committed an act of war when we hacked Irans system? You know Obama admitted to that, in fact it was one of the secrets he spilled to politically help his election.
So is hacking really an act of war?
If we hack shouldn’t we assume that they will hack?
If we assume that they are hacking shouldn’t we take measures to assure their failure/ Shouldnt we be on the lookout for it?
WQhat this story tell me is that we are suffering from incompetence.
It ain't too tough to get into the barn when some damn fool went and left the barn doors open.
blackmail
ask the mods to move this to BREAKING.....
This SHOULD be a MAJOR story!!!!!!
One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing’s most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks.
Don’t see that there’s a whole lot he or any president can do. What’s he going to do,,,threaten to stop borrowing money from them? Threaten to stop trade when we rely on them for 99% of everything we need? We have zero leverage.
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It was probably a social engineering attack aimed directly at Obama:
“Do you want to be more Communist? Just enter your White House username and password to find out how!”
Don't you know or understand yet who and what Obama is?
If Bush were in Office, it would be “a MAJOR story”...... non-stop 24/7.
Maybe they could break in and get Obama’s long form BC and college records!
My thoughts too. Recall under Clinton the fire near the Sandia Labs in New Mexico. For several days, super top secret laptops went unaccounted for, and miraculously reappeared behind a file cabinet. And that’s just one of several such fishy events.
Both Clinton and Obama have welcomed China into the most secret inner circles of US security, and nothing to the contrary can convince me otherwise.
China Has numerous Cyber Guerilla Teams run through Universities and Private Companies this Falls Under the Military as their Cyber attack squad
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