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Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we're-still-number-one-at-this dept.

suraj.sun writes "Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks. Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft."

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  1. FFS! by EmagGeek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    FFS, why are these military networks even accessible via the Internet? Shouldn't they be on their own network infrastructure - completely inaccessible from outside the military?

  2. Re:Only a few terabytes? by Maximum+Prophet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yep, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
    Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool.

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