China Hacks U.S. Networks, Proves Aggressive Cyberspace Foe

washingtonpost.com:

China is significantly boosting its capabilities in cyberspace as a way to gather intelligence and, in the event of war, hit the U.S. government in a weak spot, U.S. officials and experts say. Outgunned and outspent in terms of traditional military hardware, China apparently hopes that by concentrating on holes in the U.S. security architecture -- its communications and spy satellites and its vast computer networks -- it will collect intelligence that could help it counter the imbalance.

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[taddles]

And this is stunning news how exactly?! Everyone that has anything to do with business or technology with the Chinese knows they are crooks.

[Grunty1]

To be fair, McCain's campaign was violated by a teenager using Wikipedia as well.

[dfranz]

China is just keeing track of it's assets. They never know when they may have to foreclose on those loans.

[WeMustSpeakOut]

That is correct. Something we will NOT hear from our controlled corporate MSM.

"The Chinese parties were signing papers at the World Court on 11th November 2009, following preparatory activity on 10th November, to execute their LIEN ON THE US TREASURY.
As one of the key aggrieved Beneficiary Owners of the loaned 10,000 tonnes of gold and the currency boxes etc., the World Court powers will enable them to seize US assets around the world within their jurisdictions and probably even on the high seas and at airports, to the value of the stolen/diverted assets."
http://www.worldreports.org/news/246_matters_come_to_an_explosive_head_for_everyone

[mcmutter]

The Red Scare is real. Don't forget to thank one of our major corporations for sending all our jobs over there.

[MadeandBakedintheUSA]

1995-2007

Guess who was in charge of Telecommunications?

Guess!

C-Street U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS) did for the country and the telecommunication industry.

He was the man- the man - for our telecommunications. 1995-2007 12 years!

In the House, Pickering specialized in telecommunications issues, including one dear to Cellular South: making sure Congress took into account the interests of cellular companies serving rural areas.

Governor Sanford of SC emailed his mistress stating internet connection is unreliable at his farm.

Telecommun­ications/C­-Street

Wonder why we can’t compete globally?

Wonder why JAPAN offers the World’s fastest broadband and we do not?

Telecommunications Lobbying created their oligopolies, (monopolies are illegal in USA)

4-3-09-By Saul Hansell

The fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabi­t-per-seco­nd service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan.

The cable modem needed for that speed costs about $60, compared with about $30 for the current generation.

By contrast, Verizon is spending an average of $817 per home passed to wire neighborhoods for its FiOS fiber optic network and another $716 for equipment and labor in each home that subscribes, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.

And now the SEC is worried about fast computers?

12 years of this mentality and neglect.

Look at where we are!!!

[Photon55]

Maybe China is just keeping track of the billions Bush borrowed to finance his phony war.

[ebanks84]

I'm not surprised. China probably knows what color drawers they were wearing during the entire campaign :). Our technological expertise is being used against us like we have used it against everybody use. What goes around comes around!

[OgreDaddy]

I see the stupid mistakes they make where I work, allowing supervisors to use their laptops on the internet and then using that same highly vulnerable computer to
log in to critical secure company networks.

The company doesn't want to spend money for a new company wide enterprise license, so they keep everyone on XP, also because the IT department doesn't want to be bothered with learning anything new.

A 12 year old could write better code than the stuff they are paying "IT consulting firms"
to provide. What a joke!

[blueskybigstar]

China has been blackmailing us since Nix. Why else did he have to go there? And, what do you think it was about, perhaps the brother kennedy? How else were they able to make Clinton capitulate to all their demands. They've stolen all our technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy

[TrooAmerican]

YEAH. While our "Best and Brightest" are all sittin around on Wall Street on chairs made of $100 bills, manipulating complex financial derivatives to make immoral profits off of us consumers and shareholders, our Foes are out whoopin our A__ in high tech highly skilled positions of warfare for the next century.
So while we have the best military in the world, China will just hack our computers and tell our troops and Drones and Aircraft to attack each other and it'll work.
Friendly fire, here we come.

[billbb]

Ah, no... Critical systems are not on the web, and those isolated networks are encrypted quite thoroughly. They have no physical connection. Other "military" computers are on the web, and contain only things like base newsletters. Nothing that isn't already in the local newspapers.

Our government and military are not nearly as inept as that, with entire staffs of the military as in-house IT looking for any vulnerabil­ities... When the Russians tried introducing a virus to thumb drives last year, the Army responded seriously, epoxying over the USB ports on their vulnerable systems so there is no chance of anything getting out.

Continued vigilance is always necessary, but you are doing the patented Faux New Panic over this. Get a grip.

[OgreDaddy]

Most people are not aware that Microsoft Windows was deliberately designed and marketed
as a means to keep track of what employees were doing on company time and eventually
to monitor what people were doing from home.

The data you enter, the e-mails you send and receive, the places you surf and who you are communicating with.

These same " Administrative Tools" also allow skilled hackers to infiltrate networks and private
systems.

Now decades later, the use of Windows is so deeply indoctrinated that few IT administrators will
'admit that they depend on these design flaws for job security.

Now hostile governments, organized crime and script kiddies can unleash mayhem at the click
of a mouse.

As long as critical infrastructure is controlled by Microsoft code, we are vulnerable.
Utilities, Banks, Data Systems, Traffic Control Systems, Flight Systems, Communication Systems, you name it.

My kids have used Windows and OS X since they were tall enough to reach the keyboard.
All of them are on Macs now and would never dream of going back to the nightmare of Windows.

[swlewis57]

Apple just yesterday released security patches for Snow Leopard so neither OS is exacty perfect.

[OgreDaddy]

Most experienced Mac users know to employ a personal firewall like Little Snitch, Net Barrier or IP Net Sentry. It is also a very good idea to use PGP encryption to protect all critical data.

Anti-Virus software is a complete waste of money on any properly configured Mac system.

If you set up your Mac to operate most tasks from a
Secondary Super User Account, you can quite effectively block any unauthorized installations since you must be either logged in as administrator or type in your
administrative password to allow ANY software installation.

Your primary Administrative Account should only be used for installations and maintenance .

No it's never PERFECT, but it's way more secure than any Windows system.

[blaharumph]

again.