Don't you feel better about China now?..

[tombogan03884]

I am not that computer savy, so I don't know how big of a deal it is.
 

My first, gut response was:  

The nuke launch codes are supposed to be the most secure single piece of information held by the US Gov.
If they can get in there they can get in any system we have, like they did the electrical grid a few years back.
Not surprising though when you think how much of the hardware is MADE IN CHINA.

Not sure I agree wth you there. The MSM won't report ANTHING negtive about the Dear Leader and now have a trust rating of around 8% !!! That's lower than Congress! So just because it doesn't come from an "established" news outlet, dosn't mean it's not newsworthy. Granted there are sources that are easy to dismiss. (i.e. Prison Planet) but remember it was the National Enquirer that broke the story about John Edwards affair. Just be sure to verify the story before taking it too seriously.

I think what Tom was saying, is that since it was not reported by these propaganda outlets, the majority of the US populace won't pay attention, or even hear about it. if they do they dismiss it as conspiracy theories because 'their' news outlet didn't report it. the gov likes it that way too.

deep

Sorry if I wasn't clear, what I meant was that to those who follow cold war type subjects this sort of thing has been common knowledge for years so the event isn't exactly news worthy.
What would make it really stand out would be the main stream media admitting that the country our jobs are getting sent to are thanking us by undermining every industry we still have.

[JC5123]

Fair enough. Sounds like miscommunication all the way around today. 

[jnevis]

Stuff like this has been happening for decades and there have been breaches of proprietary, ie Boeing and Lockheed corporate, networks, possibly even more secure DoD networks but I'd be hard pressed to believe that they have gotten anywhere near the launch codes.  Inside White House Comms day-to day unclass network probably, nuke codes highly unlikely.
Also note that the attack was identified as spear pfishing and shut down before any data actually left the server  Basically somebody opened an email addressed to them that had bad code and the anti-virus caught it.

[tombogan03884]

I was searching the archives for something else and ran across this from last june.

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=19983.0

http://news.yahoo.com/astonishing-cyber-espionage-threat-foreign-governments-british-spy-191653463--abc-news-topstories.html

In a rare public speech, the head of Britain's domestic spy service said Monday that the West now faces an "astonishing" cyber espionage threat on an "industrial scale" from specific nation states.

"The extent of what is going on is astonishing," said Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5, "with industrial-scale processes involving many thousands of people lying behind both state-sponsored cyber espionage and organized cyber crime."

Though Evans did not name any countries, ABC News has separately learned from sources that the U.K., the U.S. and several European allies have a robust discussion underway on how to counter cyber espionage by perhaps the most significant state operator -- China.

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[jnevis]

From Aviation Week

Cyber Command's Intel Officer accuses China of targeting Pentagon
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_09_28_2012_p0-501031.xml

Virus Found In Mideast Can Spy On Finance Transactions
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_08_09_2012_p0-484657.xml

Lockheed, Other Defense Firms Targeted By Hackers
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_12_08_2011_p0-403134.xml

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[tombogan03884]

Virus Found In Mideast Can Spy On Finance Transactions
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_08_09_2012_p0-484657.xml

“After looking at Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same ‘factory’ or ‘factories,’” Kaspersky Lab said in a posting on its website. “All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations.”

J, actually those are ours  

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=20273.0