RE: What kind of Pentagon computers were hacked by the Chinese military?

["Joel R. Helgeson" <joel () helgeson com>]

I hate crap like this... that people

1) Assume it was the military

2) It was done by the Chinese at all

 

China just had a few million people get online. You can bet that the vast
portion are running pirated windows software, are not getting updates, and
are therefore prime targets for hijacking and setting up of remote proxy.  I
see Chinese proxy's for sale in IRC all the time, and it's the Russians and
Brazilians that are selling them... not their fellow Chinamen...


Then people use this to justify further fears of China.  Give me a break.
China is FAR more dependent on us than we are of them.  If our economy
falters, they'll tank. They have enough citizens of theirs in this country
at any given time such that if the REAL Chinese military DID want to
actually hack into the Pentagon, they sure as HELL would be able to cover
their tracks back to Beijing.

 

The Military has been using China to justify defense budgets since the fall
of the Soviet Union. My home network gets scanned 100's of times per day, so
what. Does this mean the Chinese military has it in for me too?

 

I just had to add my 2 cents.

 

Regards,

 

Joel Helgeson

 

 

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Subject: [funsec] What kind of Pentagon computers were hacked by the Chinese
military?

 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a89c1c88-5a38-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html

Beware: enemy attacks in cyberspace

By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington 

Published: September 3 2007 19:00 | Last updated: September 3 2007 19:00

Lieutenant General Robert Elder, senior Air Force officer for cyberspace
issues, recently joked that North Korea "must only have one laptop" to make
the more serious point that every potential adversary - except Pyongyang -
routinely scans US computer networks. 

North Korea may be impotent in cyberspace, but its neighbour is not. The
Chinese military sent a shiver down the Pentagon's spine in June by
successfully hacking into an unclassified network used by the top policy
advisers to Robert Gates, the defence secretary. 

While the People's Liberation Army has been probing Pentagon networks
hund-reds of times a day for the past few years, the US is more alarmed at
the growing frequency and sophistication of the attacks. 

The Pentagon spent several months deflecting the recent onslaught before the
PLA penetrated its system, which was shut down for more than a week for
diagnosis. 

.

 

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