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China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans
An anonymous reader writes: Chinese and Russian spies have attempted to hack into the top secret details of Australia's future submarines (paywalled), with both Beijing and Moscow believed to have mounted repeated cyber attacks in recent months. One of the companies working on a bid for Australia's new submarine project said it records between 30 and 40 cyberattacks per night.
Foreign intelligence agencies trying to learn the specifics of a new military system? I am shocked, shocked!
The only news here is that there are signs of it, and seemingly attributable ones as well.
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Why do they have this kind of stuff where it can be reached from the internet? I don't see why that's necessary. If it's convenient for the designers then it's too damn convenient for your enemies.
Anything that references an article behind a paywall should automatically get rejected.
If China/Russia are actively hacking the joint, I must be running something really interesting because I get about 2000/night from Russia and China on my web servers. This is just some scaremongering from a company that has no IT or an IT without a clue.
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I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. This is exactly what intelligence agencies should be doing - investigating rival countries' military capabilities and assessing threats to the nation.
Meanwhile, what intelligence agencies most definitely shouldn't be doing is mass surveillance of their own people. Intelligence agencies don't exist to suppress descenting opinions. They don't exist to erode freedom. They don't exist to keep the populous inline. The reason they exist to assess external threats to the nation.
It's a sad state of affairs when China and Russia are setting an example to western agencies on how they should be acting.
When you steal plans for a multi-billion dollar project, how do you know when you've got the real plans, and when you've got decoy plans that were carefully developed to be plausible, yet incorrect?
China attacks random IP addresses more than that. Try it for yourself: register a domain, put up a web site, and see how many attempts are made every day, probably in the hundreds.
I wonder, what these numbers mean because I — without doing any classified research whatsoever — get log-entries like these every day:
Do I get to count each entry as a separate attack? Or one "attack" per remote IP?
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Meh - everyone has a submarine these days. . .
Even rebel separatist groups. Here in the Philippines the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) sadly have trouble with the Google ranking due to competition in the namespace for that acronym. However, that didn't stop plans for the purchase of a Swede-made MSM Type A midget submarine, which was to be used to disrupt the development of an oil and gas project in the now hotly disputed South-china Sea.
The MILFs are one of several separatist groups in the Philippines, which come in Islamic and Communist, and just-plain-thug varieties. The formation of the of the MILF is actually, unsurprisingly, a tragic story. In the 60s with the incumbent government of the Philippines, proceed with plans to invade and reunite neighboring Sabah, which was granted under a lease, but somehow after World War 2 ended up as Malaysian territory.
Troops from the western region of Mindanao were selected and trained to form an elite squadron. When the troops learned that their mission would involve lethal combat with their neighboring kin-folks they refused to participate, so they were massacred by the Philippines Armed Forces on March 18, 1968. This led to years of uprising and political unrest, and it was only recently that the Philippines Government formally acknowledged that the incident occurred.
Reading about this and other affairs helped me to learn about governments, terrorism, political intrigue and rebel groups. We live in a violent world where democracy and other formal government processes seem to be a thin, fragile structure over game-of-thrones style chaos.
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It's a Rupert paper.
Any time I'm paywalled by News Corporation, he's doing *me* a favour by disallowing the reading of his trashy article.
A bit off-topic, but I surprise that Slashdot not report this, Rupert Murdoch Takes Over at National Geographic, Immediately Starts Laying off Award-Winning Staff. I've read from SoylentNews.
DoD work is supposed to be air gaped when classified. Sure, there is a difference between military contractors and Government. Guess which ones give up information? Not the guys building the military gear, because they are held accountable for their actions.
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