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China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-your-eyes-on-your-own-work dept.

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.

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  1. Internet by amiga3D · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Cool paywall, bro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anything that references an article behind a paywall should automatically get rejected.

  3. Re:Cool paywall, bro by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.