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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Depressing.
This administration = FAIL!
4.6 trillion in debt to China. Charge those yellow mfers!! One resolution from Congress, and they just bought 4.6 trillion; debt is cancelled.
Obama’s fault. He is the Command-In-Chief and the buck stops there.
I was thinking the same thing. I read that some groups were concerned that hackers or saboteurs could hack into a nuke power plant and make it malfunction. Surely, no one would connect the control systems for a powerplant to the internet? Hacking into secret information is a little more believable. Maybe they got in through some obscure connection to a nonsecure network and found a bridge to a secure network? Or maybe they had an insider?
I bet almost all of this is insiders. Look at what a peon like Manning can get access to. The foreign workers have full access and can easily copy over off network to send home.
I agree completely. Back in the 90s my wife worked for a technical company that made a policy of hiring Chinese scientists. It was run by a brilliant but very liberal couple who almost fired my wife when I referred to “Communist China” in front of them. I questioned the loyalty of their new employees at the time and figured they’d worm their way into our system and report vital military and scientific intelligence back to China. Being right isn’t always a pleasant experience.
The globalists don’t care, as long as they stay rich. They’ll happily send our children to be slaughtered for their causes.
What do you expect with a Chinese Agent as President and don’t for get all those Czars ,it’s a total inside job
The DNC will be upset because there won’t be a market for selling state secrets for campaign funds.
Just wait until Barack Obama reads about this in the newspaper!
I don’t think they stole them. Clinton and obama gave them plans quite willingly and willfully.
Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Plans For Pretty Much The Entire US Military
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The insider (multiple, probably) seems like the likely scenario. This sort of material is *supposed* to be air-gapped, so someone either moved files to a vulnerable location or simply did the Bradley Manning USB drive thing.
"Hacking" is a handy explanation for putting the blame on a faceless national rival and potential enemy, rather than admitting that the DOD has been heavily infiltrated.
‘Wonder what they’ll do with all the gay stuff?
At the unclassified level, SIPR and JWICS aren’t as secure as those operating them have been led to believe.
No surprise....we already free traded our technology and wealth to the Commie Chinese....stealing military plans no surprise
Ah common sense does exist. This is so stupid the story is beyond words.
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