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Penn State Yanks Engineering Network From Internet After China-Based Attack
coondoggie writes: Penn State's College of Engineering has disconnected its network from the Internet in response to two sophisticated cyberattacks – one from a what the university called a "threat actor based in China" – in an attempt to recover all infected systems. The university said there was no indication that research data or personal information was stolen in the attacks, though usernames and passwords had been compromised.
but it really doesnt matter.
nothing should be left open to the internet that is valuable intellectual property. It may slow communication, but the protections it offers are incredibly valuable.
There are Chinese nationals at Penn State and every other university in America, displacing our own people. Why don't we start revoking student VISAs as a response?
And 2 minutes later the attack resumed. While the Internet was still disconnected. Theories as to how the Chinese can get into the network "through the air" (as the cable had lots of air between it and the socket) started being thrown about.
To reduce the susceptibility to these attacks engineering/research institutions and corporations should just block originating source IP blocks from China. It may not reduce all such attacks but it should help
Yeah, this makes tons of sense.
Were they in clear text somewhere? If so, then they deserved to be hacked.
The correct answer is 42.
What do you say of the cybersecurity surrounding Hillary Clinton? The real solution is to elect a rock ribbed conservative to the Presidency like Ted Cruz who won't be squeamish about bustin' some heads.
They better be sure they have their network back in check before it goes online. PSU does a lot of research https://www.arl.psu.edu/
All I can think about is the chinese wanting to learn how to morest children?
Yeah, this makes tons of sense.
Actually in the case of China you can blame the Republicans. They normalized relations with Communist China, argued that more social and economic interaction would bring about a liberalization of China internally. Along with various student protesters, that theory died at the Tiananmen Square massacre during the 1989 Democracy Movement demonstrations. Mainland China readers, you'll have to google that outside of your Great Firewall.
From a wiki not controlled by the Communist Party:
"The Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident () or '89 Democracy Movement () in Chinese,[1] were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership. The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital.[2][3] The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student and other demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks. The scale of military mobilization and the resulting bloodshed were unprecedented in the history of Beijing, a city with a rich tradition of popular protests in the 20th century.[4]
The Chinese government condemned the protests as a "counter-revolutionary riot", and has prohibited all forms of discussion or remembrance of the events since.[5][6] Due to the lack of information from China, many aspects of the events remain unknown or unconfirmed. Estimates of the death toll range from a few hundred to a few thousand.[7]
The protests were triggered in April 1989 by the death of former Communist Party General Secretary, Hu Yaobang, a liberal reformer, who was deposed after losing a power struggle with hardliners over the direction of political and economic reforms.[8] University students marched and gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn. Hu had also voiced grievances against inflation, limited career prospects, and corruption of the party elite.[9] The protesters called for government accountability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry.[10][11] At the height of the protests, about a million people assembled in the Square.[12]"
Pedo State has a long history of hiring child rapists and protecting them. They protect child rapists all of the way to the top of the chain of command at that place.
Moving forward, we all will need to take additional steps to protect ourselves, our identities and our information from a new global wave of cybercrime and cyberespionage.
Second, and most importantly, how long until the US and China "come in from the cold" and enter an actual hot war(with the way events are unfolding in the South China Sea, and this cold war that has been going on for the last 15 years)?
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
What do you say of the cybersecurity surrounding Hillary Clinton?
It sounds like Penn should hire Hillary Clinton's cybersecurity people. There is absolutely no evidence at all that her basement mail server was ever hacked.
What do you say of the cybersecurity surrounding Hillary Clinton? The real solution is to elect a rock ribbed conservative to the Presidency like Ted Cruz who won't be squeamish about bustin' some heads.
You don't have any idea how moronic that sounds, do you?
I thought the President was a Democrat. When did he stop ruling?
In a manner of saying. There is no evidence at all. The Clinton Crime family scrubbed the machine, yoga emails and all. My guess is Vlad and Xi have read every detail.
"We will prepare your children for the future by hiding in caves."
Table-ized A.I.
I thought the President was a Democrat. When did he stop ruling?
Remember, he has his pen and his phone.... He's the president...
They should have been using OpenBSD.
Without knowing any of the gory details, I have to wonder if this could have been caught by the network team monitoring and characterizing the inbound/outbound traffic and watching for anomalies.
LongTail SSH Brute Force analysis tool is here!
PENN STATE!
I thought the president was elected? When did we stop ruling?
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The Penn State announcement doesn't mention China at all. The other says an unnamed source said one of the two sources was China. Where was the other?
Other countries are doing exactly what the NSA does. The NSA does the same thing, forwarding technology information and foreign business strategies to US companies by hacking communications through ECHELON, tapping into privately owned infrastructure cables, keylogging and tapping phones at sources.
But that's OK because it's "us" and not "them."
these things will just keep happening. They just don't get security, and they actually like it when the average person gets hurt by a communist. It gives them more of an excuse to go on another one of their constant murder rampages. That is the way of their kind. They are encouraging this to happen.
Talk about rank partisan stupidity... normalizing relations with China was a good move overall. They are no longer a communist country, though the communist party is still in control, they are gradually relinquishing control as their quality of living overall improves. The US on the other hand was controlled exclusively by the Democrats for 2 years, and a Democrat majority (Senate and Presidency, only lacking the House) for 4 more years, rounding out to 6 years out of the last 7 being dominated by the Democrats. So if you don't like our current policies towards China, maybe you should stop blindly voting, pull your head out of your ass, learn the issues and then vote for and support candidates based on what they believe instead of whether they have a (D) or (R) next to their name...
And yes, most cyber attacks come out of relatively few countries, and in the case of China, all of it is state sponsored. Don't like it? Elect representatives that will stop spending money like drunken sailors, enact reflective trade policies with China (neutralize the artificial advantage we have been allowing China to have) and balance our budget. Once we don't have to rely on China buying our debt, we can work with other free nations to have a protective treaty that cuts off global internet access for ascending weeks if they engage in cyber warfare or espionage (or if we have pretty good evidence that they did). It is a cost/benefit balance with China, they will stop doing it if there is a cost greater than the benefit.
Penn State is best known for Paterno who was friends with a child rapist that he protected for decades. The school's reputation will probably never recover from providing little boys for Sandusky to rape. These seems more like a stunt to try to distract from the facts.
Since people want to get access from their homes why not start white listing addresses it will definitely reduce the chance of getting hacked.
It might be harder then blacklisting for the average consumer but I assume that the engineering department employees or students would know how to get the info from their home systems to have white listing work.
Wrong. The President is selected by the Board of Trustees. The board consists of 32 members so the selection process can be quite chaotic. It especially was the last go round after they finally fired the guy they selected that spent years protecting a child rapist. After decades of protecting child rapers, they finally stopped.
Your off again.
The university said there was no indication that research data or personal information was stolen in the attacks, though usernames and passwords had been compromised.
Because you know...who would consider passwords to be personal information...
'Penn State's College of Engineering has disconnected its network from the Internet in response to two sophisticated cyberattacks – one from a what the university called a "threat actor based in China"'
What was the nature of the attack, what Operating System does Penn State run on?
Literally a week ago I was googling how to set the hostname for a certain printer via web interface and I found their printer there, accessible to the internet. I thought about taking it offline to get the staff's attention, but instead I changed the language to Swedish.
Anonymous for obvious reasons.
A friend of mine at Rutgers complained that attacks resulted in Rutgers being cut off from the Internet in recent weeks.
Okay, so a Republican controlled congress failed to seize the server before it was wiped clean. I wouldn't go around making a big deal about this if I were a Republican. It may come back to bite you when the presidential election rolls around.
Okay, so a Republican controlled congress failed to seize the server before it was wiped clean. I wouldn't go around making a big deal about this if I were a Republican. It may come back to bite you when the presidential election rolls around.
When the election rolls around? Uh, I think it's hear now and we have nearly 2 years of campaigning in our future... Heaven help us... Hillary won't be materially harmed by this, by the time she actually starts campaigning it will be old news but thinking the republicans will be harmed by this somehow is nuts... Unless of course they over play the card... But that's a self inflected "unforced error" kind of thing and if the democrats are hoping for that, it's going to go badly for them and they know it.
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