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FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign
daten writes The FBI on Wednesday issued a private warning to industry that a group of highly skilled Chinese government hackers was in the midst of a long-running campaign to steal valuable data from U.S. companies and government agencies. "These state-sponsored hackers are exceedingly stealthy and agile by comparison with the People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 ... whose activity was publicly disclosed and attributed by security researchers in February 2013," said the FBI in its alert, which referred to a Chinese military hacker unit exposed in a widely publicized report by the security firm Mandiant.
The NSA refers to its own "Hacker Units" as TAO, or "Tailored Access Operations".
TAO is also a Chinese word that means "the Way".
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
The group’s sophistication is demonstrated less in how it gains access to targets’ computers and more in how it moves “laterally’’ once inside the system, disguising its behavior to look normal so it goes undetected, said Peter B. LaMontagne, Novetta Solutions chief executive officer.
In my day, spies had to get into the building, gain access to the blueprint file cabinet drawers, photograph them - on film no less and getting the exposure right, and then make their way out without getting caught.
It was ALL social engineering back then - OLD school.
You whipper snappers sitting behind your keyboards eating Cheetoes or Lo Mein (whatever the case may be) and drinking Wired Bull, or whatever those caffeine drinks are called, are just a bunch of lazy good for nothings!
We had to WALK and GET INTO a building and even TALK to people!
Pffft!
I'd like to see some Chinese spy walk into a high tech firm and go un-noticed!
H1-bs? Oh, shit! Yeah, ....Um.....never mind.
Captcha "crackpot" - Ahahahahahahahahaha!
Trade Wars lead to real wars.
We're not playing the same game?
Just how deep in the sand do you have your head buried?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
What China is doing is a drop in the bucket compared to what the USA is doing.
lol, you modded me down and then replied anon? You truly are a coward aren't you?
http://www.reuters.com/article...
Even cowards can use Google.
We are steeling trade secrets and giving them to corporations friendly to the US government. We're doing exactly the same thing China is doing, just on a much much larger scale.
Yeah, how dare they trespass on the FBI's domain like that!
Since the US does not need any warrant to hack in a remote computer (out of US), why Chinese should not hack into US server without warrant or warning??
It's legal isn't it ?
I can't call that English
This is news that nerds might be interested in. If you have no use for it, clearly you aren't a nerd. Go elsewhere for your news. I am tired of people bitching about stories that don't pertain to them. If you don't find them useful, then don't read them.
This is important news. If China is stepping up it's state sponsored spying and digital theft, I want to know about it. It might be useful background info to know so that when the president decides to park a cruse missile on a building in China, you know some of the history that lead to this decision.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
These aren't rogue groups. They operate with the full support of the Chinese government.
I agree with hacking back but the only value you'd gain is if you handed the data over to corporations, and that's a big bad can of worms to open.
No casualties? The median lifetime earnings of a USA worker is $1.5m. For ever $1.5m in economic damage, you've effectively killed one person.
Sun Tzu said "I would rather have one good spy than 10,000 soldiers."