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US Military Aware Only Belatedly of Chinese Attacks Against Transport Contractor
itwbennett writes The Senate Armed Service Committee released on Wednesday an unclassified version of a report (PDF) commissioned last year to investigate cyberattacks against contractors for the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM). The report alleges that the Chinese military successfully stole emails, documents, login credentials and more from contractors, but few of those incidents were ever reported to TRANSCOM. During a one-year period starting in June 2012, TRANSCOM contractors endured more than 50 intrusions, 20 of which were successful in planting malware. TRANSCOM learned of only two of the incidents. The FBI, however, was aware of 10 of the attacks.
It hardly matters. What matters is that as usual the agencies responsible for catching this stuff are too busy spying on Americans to do their real job. 9/11 came and went and they didn't learn a thing. Incompetent as ever.
Of course, if everyone was running my favorite OS, we wouldn't have any security vulnerabilities. It of course has to do with the OS and not that the users have enough rights to run unknown code from an email.
Time to ping flood those commies back to dial up!!
I don't want to do a sig now
Far more pointedly: the Boston Marathon came and went. So either they let it happen to gain even more power [adjusts tinfoil hat], or all the 'post 9/11' security is total, absolute bullshit, with everything to do with career advancement then an early retirement to a payment in kind consulting gig, and nothing at all to do with the Fath^H^H^H^H Homeland.