Pentagon Hacked, But Joint Strike Fighter Safe

[Guest]

Just you watch this is all a play. The next step the government is going to take is Federal internet regulation just you watch. Can't wait to be told what sites I can and can't visit, and what I can and can't download...

Paranoid, yes. Wrong, God I hope so...

 

[bigpoppastuke]

oh and also. Probly not as long as you'd think. The military is already using the next itineration of the internet. Internet2. Supposed to get ridiculous download speeds.

http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3403161

 

[Guest]

This incident is a concerted effort:
1) The US is using this incident as a mean for the creation of Department of Homeland and Space Communication Security. The USA has many communication satellites and 'nuke' equipped Hubble Space Telescope (the shape of it is for the missiles, the images alleged to be from it are from the Department of Public Assessment, Communication and Control and is contracted out to Adobe, Facebook, and news agencies, Tomshardware excluded =) The USA must protect all communications on land, and in Space.

2) This incident is also a distraction used by the Chinese to mask correlation of its current more massive attack: Conficker. Conficker is being used to established a network of cyber troops ready to deal damange at the moment notice.

3) The recent hacks into Airforce Traffic is a cyber warfare readiness exercise to gauge AirForce response capabilities. Recent hacks into our power grid is for mapping power distribution to important medical facilities, local law enforcement, fire fighter stations, transportation (ground and air) system, military facilities.

4) At the push of a button the USA can be annihilated:
a) US air superiority compromised by injection of bogus GPS, command, weapon guidance and radar data into the network. Some sophisticated weapon system relies on precise timing of data from satelites to work, a DOS attack will server that purpose.
b) US commercial air traffic compromised by the same method.
c) Over sea military assests, Naval Aircraft Carrier forces, submarines are blinded without instruction and reliable data become sitting ducks. With a concerted effort multiple long range missile barrage and Joint Strike Freedom Air Fighters can take out the lame Naval fleets. Naval superiority compromised.
c) The attackers will notify local news of the compromises and attacks. After the initial Public notification the power grid is then shutdown. Local law enforcement, fire response, etc... will be powerless.
d) There will be mass hysteria overwhelming local law enforcement agencies. Without proper communications emergency response could not be carried out resulting in major fatalities.

So Pentagon what are you gona do?
FML

 

[tiredwolf]

it is possible to not notice that type of information if it is leaving in small quantities, you're thinking of your home net work transfering a file from point A to point B going at X speed. They would be taking part of the file from many many point A's to a point B, from thousands of different remote computers. You don't see a huge file transfer you see lots of small file tranfers, which they would expect because they are working with private contractors constantly sending and recieving information.

 

[fonzy]

There's to many hack for the Pentagon to do nothing to protect themselves for the last 10 years.I would bet they are giving the hackers disinformation.

no doubts in my mind at all.

 

[rooket]

Several terabytes. Sounds to me like their network admins are sleeping during the day.

 

[average joe]

I can't imagine it would be that hard for them to get in through Boeing, and Lockhead Martin. They both have big offices in China. Heck, we can't build the Tacticle Fighter without China. It's a complete disgrace. The US is all bloated and corrupt. We won't even train our own people to do cyber security because it's too expensive. Watch, the US will outsource our national security to India. They'll make you pay for it by working at WallMart and taxing the heck out of you.

 

[Shadow703793]

I want to know how their IT department didn't notice TERABYTES of data being sent outside the network.

Dude, the network Admin was DLing from torrents so he thought the the traffic was from the Torrents! :lol: 😛
That or sleeping on the job or playing WoW,etc.

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In all seriousness, the US needs to do the same thing to "other" nations that are deemed a "threat". They also need to shore up security.

 

[MrBradley]

[citation][nom]FMyLife[/nom]This incident is a concerted effort:1) The US is using this incident as a mean for the creation of Department of Homeland and Space Communication Security. The USA has many communication satellites and 'nuke' equipped Hubble Space Telescope (the shape of it is for the missiles, the images alleged to be from it are from the Department of Public Assessment, Communication and Control and is contracted out to Adobe, Facebook, and news agencies, Tomshardware excluded =) The USA must protect all communications on land, and in Space.2) This incident is also a distraction used by the Chinese to mask correlation of its current more massive attack: Conficker. Conficker is being used to established a network of cyber troops ready to deal damange at the moment notice.3) The recent hacks into Airforce Traffic is a cyber warfare readiness exercise to gauge AirForce response capabilities. Recent hacks into our power grid is for mapping power distribution to important medical facilities, local law enforcement, fire fighter stations, transportation (ground and air) system, military facilities.4) At the push of a button the USA can be annihilated:a) US air superiority compromised by injection of bogus GPS, command, weapon guidance and radar data into the network. Some sophisticated weapon system relies on precise timing of data from satelites to work, a DOS attack will server that purpose.b) US commercial air traffic compromised by the same method.c) Over sea military assests, Naval Aircraft Carrier forces, submarines are blinded without instruction and reliable data become sitting ducks. With a concerted effort multiple long range missile barrage and Joint Strike Freedom Air Fighters can take out the lame Naval fleets. Naval superiority compromised.c) The attackers will notify local news of the compromises and attacks. After the initial Public notification the power grid is then shutdown. Local law enforcement, fire response, etc... will be powerless.d) There will be mass hysteria overwhelming local law enforcement agencies. Without proper communications emergency response could not be carried out resulting in major fatalities.So Pentagon what are you gona do?FML[/citation]

Last time I checked, 2000 nukes were not hooked up to the internet...

 

[eddieroolz]

Chinese officials calling the Pentagon's report "a product of the Cold War mentality," and said the allegations of cyber espionage are lies designed to "fan up China threat sensations."

Or perhaps, they ARE engaged in such a thing and is doing everything they can to lie and cover it up. Just like the good ol' Commie government we all know.

Those Commies can't fool everyone. Especially overseas & former citizens, who know how the government works. I think China is guilty of pretty much everything.

 

[kato128]

Betcha this is a misinformation exercise. They did it before with the USSR to great effect. If it was real data taken then this would've been hushed up something chronic and you'd see an announcement that the JSF was delayed for some reason.

The net effect of this will be that the US will seem like an easy target and support for more military/security spending will grow. Also there'll be a push for more local manufacture etc due to security concerns so this helps the US economy with jobs, etc. Also the Chinese potentially could be using tech that would have fatal flaws which would weaken them as a potential adversary.

 

[cruiseoveride]

Begin the beguine. Its the start of WW3

 

[mikeynavy1976]

If their getting our stuff, I hope we're as active at going after their stuff. Obviously, I don't want the media to report if we were, as that would breach national security like the media always does. As for clamping down on contractors...our legal system doesn't really allow it. If you feel someone is a risk, you can't do anything due to "discrimination lawsuits." Then, when the inevitable happens, you are still hammered. It's a lose-lose situation for countries trying to pick and choose who they want working for them.

 

[Tindytim]

Why the hell do people keep bringing up Windows? By the time they get to the OS security it's already to late to be stopped. Windows is the most secure and battle hardened, all the exploits are quickly dragged into the light. Other OSes don't have that benefit.

 

[Guest]

Bullshit. It looks like another excuse to do something... (...to ask for more money? ...to arrest somebody? ...to invade some country of interest?).

 

[ehenry818]

Someone was paid off to let the hackers in. Or our government outsorced the IT support to China to save some money...

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]Why the hell do people keep bringing up Windows? By the time they get to the OS security it's already to late to be stopped. Windows is the most secure and battle hardened, all the exploits are quickly dragged into the light. Other OSes don't have that benefit.[/citation]
Um yeah... last time I checked it took about 2-3 days to patch up an exploit in Windows. Linux usually gets patched up within a few hours.

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]Um yeah... last time I checked it took about 2-3 days to patch up an exploit in Windows. Linux usually gets patched up within a few hours.[/citation]
Patched up? Linux is a Kernal, not an OS. And when was the last time there was an actual attack on a Linux Distro? Ubuntu gets patched daily, but not because it's actually in danger.