as easy as pie !
JUST NEED to walk right in with a Lady Gaga CD, then with a smile, walk out again with what ever you like
Shanghai hackers APT1 - outed this month in a high-profile report that linked them to the Chinese military - may not be China's top cyber-espionage team despite its moniker. Security experts say the team is more prolific than leet. The gang, believed to carrying out orders from state officials, was accused of siphoning …
"The Comment Crew are, in general, not terribly sophisticated, But there are some people in there who are quite skilled not just in the malware they create but in their ability to hide their tracks. You are always going to get some junior members in any hacking or security group who are less skilled."
That's sure going to cause some ruckus in the oriental haxxors crew!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Hacking has evolved from personal adventure to criminal exploit to government backed attacks and is getting on into corporate activity. Everyone is having fun. My guess is that it will soon be easier to report who isn't hacking each other rather than who is. Pretty sad, really.
Is this the world we want our children to inherit?
The evidence linking hackers to a government or to a certain group is very thin or non-existent. What seems to be happening is that all of the thousands of hacks that happen every day are grouped into categories, then labeled as being from a common source.
All this is being done by governments with political agendas, soon-to-be-unemployed army generals looking for the next war and security vendors with gear/services to sell.
I take all this with a grain of salt. Meanwhile, all these companies moaning about being attacked are wise to teach their employees not to get caught in phishing attempts, install the latest patches on *all* of their equipment and start using encryption a little bit more (anyone using S/MIME or PGP?).
Try reporting hacking incidents and it's clear that the Chinese government is all for it. To start with, the network contacts for Chinanet and many of the Chinese schools have been fake for about a decade.
South Korea and Taiwan are probably involved too. Maybe not directly or intentionally, but they have incredible numbers of bots that are constantly hacking away at every IP address on the Internet. As with China, the network contacts for HiNet (Chunghwa Telecom) and KORNET (KT Corporation) are not functional.
1. why isn't this sort of thing considered an act of war or causing a diplomatic incident at the very least. I'm sure the hi-tech boffins who work for the US gov would know who it was who was doing it.
2. Are they trying to tell us the countries like the US does not have it's own hacking teams/departments? I mean, really?
you think your so safe because you have a DMZ. No.
Let me tell you that I think it's damn funny the Chinese now have all your files. They'll probably use them better anyway, the Chinese are smart people you know. Probably don't even pay for Windows if/when they do run it. Just like all the smart Indians who don't pay. It's only you litigious westerners that think its so kinky to go around paying for software.
Cyber Squared are NOT experts.
I know an organisation that received an email from Cyber Squared over a known-insecure channel (given that the attack led to exfiltration of emails) notifying them that they'd been compromised as data had been found on a system Cyber Squared were cleaning. This email was cc'ed to another 2 organisations also apparently compromised. Fortunately this email arrived after the cleanup had taken place. Otherwise the bad guys might have realised they'd been rumbled and put in deeper compromises.
Rule one: If you've discovered a 3rd-party breach, notify over a secure channel. Definitely NOT over the one that you know has been compromised. They may already know, and be preparing for the cleanup.
Tossers.
AC, obviously.