US Department of Defense fingers China as top cyber threat A new report to Congress by the US Department of Defense (DoD) includes some of the strongest language yet implicating the People's Republic of China in recent global cyber-attacks. "In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, continued to be targeted for intrusions," the …
"One name for you: McKinnon."
I think your point is that if they knew their stuff McKinnon wouldn't have got in. But there's a follow on, that if they'd spent less time hounding the guy and trying to extradite him, maybe they could have spent the time asking how a lone oddbod was able to get in so easily, and what they ought to do to stop things getting worse. So two fails for the price of one.
But now it's all the fault of the Chinese. Lucky for the US taxpayer that its never the fault of the US authorities.
I didn't read the article, but this doesn't seem strong, in fact, the second quote even adds a bit of plausible deniability to the wording.
Also, I've never understood if it was that the USA is better at hacking the Chinese, or the Chinese just don't publish their reports of the USA hacking them.
The majority of attempts on my site seems to be originating from US IP addresses at the moment, with Russia/eastern Europe being a close second.
As for the rest:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/04/21/Vimes_Serious_WPAD_flaw_in_IE/
Perhaps a more productive course of action would be for the DoD to focus their attention a little closer to home? If they tried to do something about US companies releasing software with these sorts of mistakes then maybe at least the Chinese would find things a little more challenging?
Avoid using IE for your browser if you're in the UK.
The mention of Verizon is also interesting given that they have been caught handing over to the NSA. The US government don't have to hack people when they have the active cooperation of the telecoms companies.
from the expanding Chinese civilian economy ...» Well, that does seem frightening, especially given that the US military has not directly benefited from the expanding US civilian economy ever since the end of WW II - at least under periods when the latter was expanding....
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