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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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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.