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China fingered as largest cyberthreat
Robert Lemos, 2007-02-19
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China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-19
Veteran of Titan Rain. (2 replies)
This vastly understates the scope and scale of the attack-traffic from China.

Our unit recently survived 4400 attacks from the Chinese National Railway in a single day.

Or, we think we survived. As everyone knows, you never really know for sure.

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Re: China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Ehh... You sure you should be saying this? ...

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Re: Re: China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-21
Anonymous
It's not that a big deal. Chinese hacked different labs, universities, state department, navy servers, etc. And they are doing it on a daily basis. Just check NIDS logs and You will see enormous number of scans, probes, coming from china based networks. The other thing is, are the Chinese only peopl...

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Re: China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-27
Sgt. "Cyber" Rock
Our soldiers don't give away their position or info to the enemy; comrade. This is mis-information from Chinese state sponsored hacking, I suspect. So do you still print your little red books with political prison labor ?

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China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-19
Anonymous
It's troubling how US defense appears to be incapable of locking down network security as the number of breaches keeps going up. Can't they enlist the help of some gurus for totally redesigned security instead of just plugging the latest hole that the Chinese had already gotten through?

Well pro...

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China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-20
Anonymous (3 replies)
Is this for real or is it yet another example of US foreign policy looking to vilify an 'enemy' as a pretext to some form of unilateral aggression? Can anyone still remember the reason we were told we had to invade Iraq?...

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Re: China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anyone who works in security knows that attacks happen. Anyone who works on a military network knows they happen a lot. Anyone who does incident response knows they come from China, Iran, Korea (North) and other not so friendly places frequently.

The supposition comes into play regarding spo...

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Holding US Debt 2007-02-21
Anonymous
Agree with most of what you said. But, holding so much US debt works against them, not the US, in my opinion. After all, its just paper (or perhaps, bits). Dumping it, or otherwise de-valuing it, would weaken their financial state. They need to deversify ;-)...

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Re: China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-21
veteran
Yes, I remember....

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Only the paranoid think the US will invade China 2007-02-21
Anonymous
Only the paranoid think the US will invade China. There has been no talk of it. The are a big trade partner; they aren't threatening or hurting us. And to think we will invade because of Microsoft Viruses is silly. If we do that because of MS Viruses, we'll have to invade every country, including...

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Military has to be stupid to use MS Windows 2007-02-21
Dan Anderson (1 replies)
The military has to be stupid to use MS Windows. Apparently they can't be bothered with installing anti-virus and anti-spyware. Since that's the case, they should use alternative software, such as Apple Mac or Linux. To leave "doors unlocked" into military systems is very irresponsible....

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Re: Military has to be stupid to use MS Windows 2007-02-22
Anonymous (2 replies)
So is implying that presence of Windows means a network is not secure, or that all it takes to secure a network that uses Windows is AV or anti-spyware, or that using OSX or Linux is inherently secure.

The networks we are talking about a enormous. If you want an idea of the scope just Google NMCI...

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Re: Re: Military has to be stupid to use MS Windows 2007-02-23
Anonymous
I agree. I am sooo tired of the "linux is more secure than windoze" argument. They both have vulns. They both get rooted daily. And linux is much harder to manage in an enterprise (look and .gov and .mil ip space-- it's huge!), so it would probably create more issues than it would solve.

Have yo...

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Re: Re: Military has to be stupid to use MS Windows 2007-02-24
Anonymous (1 replies)
I totally agree with you. Using Windows is not a factor here, they're talking about organized expert hackers who can get into any system, not script kiddies. If you can think of a better way to secure a gigantic enterprise network that is the target of people capable of writing brand new 0-days ag...

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Re: Re: Re: Military has to be stupid to use MS Windows 2007-02-28
Anonymous
Why aren't they using OpenBSD 10 years only 1 remote hole.

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Why Innovate When You Can Steal? 2007-02-21
Anonymous
Has anyone else noticed the odd parallels between Chinese Government and Microsoft policy? HAHAHA! I'm just kidding, please don't disable my operating system ;-)...

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China, Russia and India are the largest cyber threats 2007-02-26
Frogman (1 replies)
If you have done the research, you will find that Russia and China are the Largest Cyber Threats. I also mentioned India....does anyone know why?

Apparently, China has been having India write their exploit code. Kinda of interesting huh? Sorta like playing with a doubled edged sword.

The humor...

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Re: China, Russia and India are the largest cyber threats 2007-02-27
Sgt. "Cyber" Rock
But the russians are motivated for profit. The russian mafia is not backed by their government like the chinese. The russians want personal info. for ID theft, ATM card numbers, bank accounts. etc.. chinese hackers want to steal U.S. techology and related info. and are backed by their govt. Remem...

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China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-02-27
Anonymous (1 replies)
Wow, I've been watching logs for years, and China has always been #1 for attacks. How is this possibly news?...

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Re: China fingered as largest cyberthreat 2007-03-04
Sgt "Cyber" Rock
It is becoming more news to the mainstream. It is not just a few sys admins anymore. it is CIOs, DoD officials, law enforcement that are seeing now what is going on. The Spear phishing attacks against DoD to hack their PCs and network and the root k DNS DDoS attack were the icing on the cake. Loo...

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