Posted on 06/08/2018 8:19:48 PM PDT by bitt
Chinese government hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive information from a US Navy contractor, including secret plans to develop a new type of submarine-launched anti-ship missile, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Investigators told the newspaper that breaches were executed in January and February by a division of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, operating out of the Chinese province of Guangdong.
The contractor, which was not named in the report, works for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, based in Newport, Rhode Island. It conducts research and development for submarines and underwater weapons systems.
According to the Post, hackers swiped 614 gigabytes of data that included information relating to sensors, submarine cryptographic systems and a little-known project called Sea Dragon.
The Pentagon has not said much about Sea Dragon, launched in 2012, except that it is aimed at adapting existing military technologies to new uses.
At the Navy's request, the Post withheld information about the compromised new missile system, but said it was for a supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched from submarines.
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Listen to the liberals at the Universities howl.
Trump should tell Xi the ZTE deals is off and all tariffs just went up 33%.
We need to tighten up our national labs and set standards in corporate military R&D.
Return the favor.
this nation’s guardians have been feather-bedding for the last 40 years....
Too much trouble to guard the borders, guard the ports, guard the intelligence.. FEH.
Honeypot
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Honeypot
In computer terminology, a honeypot is a computer security mechanism set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
You’d think after all this time that the Chinese would just be taking away honeypots full of information that would degrade their capabilities.
Too bad I’m not in charge. They would have downloaded a bunch of crap that would make their subs implode.
GMTA. Get out of my head, it’s not safe here.
Need to fix it so next time they try this, it shuts down their whole electrical grid. The Chicoms have been stealing technology for a long time. It’s time to teach them a lesson.
Err the ene-media! May be friendly and don’t know it.
If Hillary had won, hey wouldn’t have to hack to get that information.
Hillary would sell it to them.
Just like when Mr. Hillary Clinton was elected, the Chinese financed his election.
The payoff was that Clinton de-classified secret information about missile targeting and gave it to China to thank them.
Shortly thereafter, China had missiles aimed at every important area of the USA.
China had to work to get information this time.
I hope those in charge put some good detours in the info stolen to throw the Chinese off target.
We’ll see.
Kind of related....didnt some of our F-22s have some Chinese chips in their targeting systems a couple of years back??
And put Some serious tariffs on them.
And put Some serious tariffs on them.
Lets hope the data was a setup. Fill the data with misinformation then allow them to access it. Then act like it’s a big deal.
Of course that would take intelligence agencies more concerned with protecting America, than subverting it.
lol
This is that bad kind of “free trade”
China is like the Hillary of nations.
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