Chinese military hacked into Pentagon

[TomInTib]

And guess who is meeting Hu on Thursday in Australia? The Chinese absolutely own our asses.

Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.

The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.

Current and former officials have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the People’s Liberation Army.

One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a “very high level of confidence...trending towards total certainty” that the PLA was responsible. The defence ministry in Beijing declined to comment on Monday.

more:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html

[shance]

1. Wasnt it the Pentagon that allowed five trillion of our tax dollars to be stolen from us?

Should we then believe those running the Pentagon?

[havocmom]

2. Would like to think they were just doing a credit check prior to lending more $$

But it seems unlikely.

America, do you feel safer?

Didn't think so.

Really had a :wtf: moment reading this part of linked article:

John Hamre, a Clinton-era deputy defence secretary involved with cyber security, said that while he had no knowledge of the June attack, criminal groups sometimes masked cyber attacks to make it appear they came from government computers in a particular country.
Hell's bells criminal groups are RUNNING governments. One does not rule out the other.

[peacetalksforall]

4. They steal our secrets, then they don't have to 'keep' us.

[TomInTib]

6. That part got my attention, as well.

Hell, my new computer is probably more secure than the Pentagon's.

[havocmom]

7. I screwed up the block

That last sentence should be OUTSIDE the block and I am too late to edit.

havocmom should not post under the influence of allergy meds.

[Wiley50]

3. At the Press conference on Thursday, Hu's on first? n/t

[TomInTib]

5. There you are..

Reminded me of something I posted earlier today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1725126&mesg_id=1725126

[havocmom]

8. ::choke::

:spray: