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China Hacked US Banking Regulator From 2010 Until 2013 - and US Officials Covered It Up: Report (reuters.com)
According to a Congressional report, China's spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2010 until 2013. The report adds that American government officials tried to cover it up. From a Reuters report: "Even the former Chairwoman's computer had been hacked by a foreign government, likely the Chinese," staff at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology said in the report. The report was the latest example of how deeply Washington believes that Beijing has penetrated U.S. government computers. But while making the allegation that China was the culprit, the report does not provide specific evidence to support that conclusion.
Is this announcement about cybersecurity, or just a card played in the game of South China Sea?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I wish I was a chinese right now, they are the coolest nation ever. They just do as they please. I'm sure they could crush USA in a war.
At least we're giving them plenty of business and trade deals. My conscience is clear. I for one welcome our new Oriental Overlords.
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This kind of coverup generally means there's something going on *against* the Chinese. Both sides are probably fist deep in each other's ass, and neither is quite ready to pull out yet.
i heard an american scooped up tons of classified data and put it on her personal email server, and then they made her president.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Yesterday we learned the State Department destroyed public records concerning the illegal use of US government funds to campaign against Netanyahu. We are, once again, expected to believe that State Department officials are somehow blithely ignorant of their obligations to retain government records. We are expected to believe the correlation between deleted messages and illegal activity is purely coincidental. Just saving a little space in the inbox.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
I recommend we stop playing either game and move on to Pokemon GO, as this will confuse them and keep our banks free to loot America
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Seriously, china is in a cold war with the west. So, they are going to do everything that we allow them to do, though I am not certain why we allow this.
BUT, it is not much different than what is happening with India. We see all of these backdoors going into our corporate software which is then traced to 'Russia', and nearly all of these have 2 things in common. The first is that they run Windows, and the Second is that within the previous 2 years, normally 1, the company outsourced to India. Not any other nation, just India. And why does this matter? Because the average Indian IT worker makes less than $10,000. It should not be surprising then that backdoors come in from India, which are then removed by Russians and replaced with different ones.
Just 20-30 years ago, it was well known that any massive pay difference would lead to ppl being bought. And Russia remains good friends with India and can travel freely over there (and they do). So, America not only allows numerous nations to manipulate and dump on their markets, but then also, we KNOWINGLY allow attacks from both China AND India.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
She a rich American politician, she has a higher level of citizen status. Now get back to your stable lower class citizen.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
What's next?
A secret deal between the Attorney General and an ex-President that lets the wife of the ex-President off the hook for felonies involving classified data?
Yeah, go ahead.
Vote for Crooked Liar Hillary! and get more of the same.
Yay, vapid bullshit scaremongering guaranteed to contain no actual information whatsoever.
Good thing it wasn't import... oh wait.
Why hasn't the US Government blacklisted China's IP Address Blocks at all Government offices? I mean even if China uses proxies within the US, we should start with Blacklisting foreign addresses when it comes to basic network protection for Government offices.
The story should be about criminal incompetence of the CIO of FDIC. Read the report. Not only should Lawrence Gross be removed from his position, he should be indicted. Read the report. It's scathing. The China hack is besides the point.
https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/Final%20GOP%20Interim%20Staff%20Report%207-12-16.pdf
1. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has created a toxic work environment, misled Congress, and retaliated against whistleblowers.
2. The FDIC deliberately evaded Congressional oversight.
3. The FDIC has historically experienced deficiencies related to its cybersecurity posture and those deficiencies continue to the present.
Doesn't matter. Hillary will NOT be indicated. End of the story. Cyber security? What's that?
Obama would never cover anything up. He promised the most transparent administration ever.
while making the allegation that China was the culprit, the report does not provide specific evidence to support that conclusion
Re: "...allegation that China was the culprit, the report does not provide specific evidence to support that conclusion."
Likely because the evidence they have was obtained through illegal spying. Or spying that, if revealed, would also reveal how much spying, when, where, and by who, that spying is done. Oh and it's all classified Top Secret anyway.
Unless the evidence is suspicious but not 100% conclusive.
These are not mutually exclusive situations of course. The evidence can be both wobbly and Top Secret. In fact that seems most likely...
If I owe $50,000 to the bank, I have a problem.
If I owe $50,000,000 to the bank, the bank has a problem.
They didn't get the memos about cybersecurity from ANY of the TLAs ?
Who the f##@k is in charge of the government computer security? Wiley Coyote?
And as Congress sits on its ass, Hillary has set a really bad example for the rest of the high-level idiots.
Unless... The NSA and the CIA were using the FDIC as a honeypot... then it becomes popcorn time...
Yea they covered it up. Or it was on Hillary Clinton's mail server and was erased.
The articles linked by the parent do not support the parent's assertion that records were destroyed to cover something up.
The obvious solution to this problem is more backdoors. /s
My bro is one of the higher-ups at FDIC. When talking to him last Sunday evening (3 days ago), he said he had to go to work earlier in the day but didn't say why. Which in retrospect is highly unusual, these government career bureaucrats almost *never* work on Sundays.
I Wonder If They Are Covering Up Hillary's Hacking Too? My Bet Is They Are.
MSNBC is Microsoft National Broadcasting Company
Google's Eric Schmidt works at the Pentagon.
Facebook data is shared multinationally.
Pretend you just found out about China.
Korea could have been 'won' if they had waited for the spring/summer, gotten the reinforcements MacArthur requested, and rolled right through as far as possible. No I don't think that would have been a good idea, and yes it could have turned into a protracted war as China and Russia both rolled in to hold the US back. But Korea's biggest shortcoming was not being a Total War scenario. It was a peacekeeping mission to push North Korea back to the treatied boarder, something that MacArthur then tried to break with insufficient forces at the worst time of year and got successfully pushed back by chinese reinforcements as a result.
Vietnam was the clusterfuck it was because they were rolling over the homes of people who were willing to stand up and die for their country with the backing of a political movement that controlled 1/4 to 1/3 of the world at that time and was willing to provide the war material necessary to ensure they could win. The US on the other hand was piling in warm bodies without piling in the quality of equipment needed to make the mission a success.
This stuff cannot all be "accidental". The Obama admin is firmly in bed with Google and Facebook and there's a revolving door between these silicon valley firms and this administration. Their political party is always bragging about their tech abilities and the GOP inferiority in these areas. Therefore the following questions arise:
1. Did they really not know these hacks were happening, and then WHY cover up the hacks by an enemy?
2. Did they really not know that Hillary had a private server? Even as Obama himself exchanged e-mails with her? Were all the deletions of her e-mails innocent acts rather than the permanent destruction of government records?
3. Did all the deleted e-mails and degaussed hard drives at the IRS happen by accident? (the ones that helped obstruct the investigation into the IRS suppression of the TEA Party, which is still ongoing)
4. Are all the deleted files at the State Department which obstructed the investigation into the interference in Israel's elections "accidental"? (US taxpayer cash apparently was funneled into the anti-Netanyahu side contrary to US laws against such partisan interference)
5. Are all the deletions of immigration files which have obstructed the courts and congress from intestigating Obama's various amnesty and immigration actions "accidental"?
6. Are all the Chinese hacks into the US government, even the pentagon, completely unavoidable? (with the biggest tech companies involved, if the Obama admin cannot stop these attacks, then they must be unstoppable or they are being allowed)
There are no foil hats required here. One simply has to face the fact that either this administration is nowhere near as competent as they continually brag that they are, or these relatively basic failures are not "failures" at all.
This is proof that the Obama administration is committed to transparency and open government.
Is anyone really and truly surprised that the government has been lying to us for years?
Especially this Obama government? Say one thing, do another. Or, if possible, just never say anything at all...
This is typical of Chicago Machine politics. "Thou Shalt Not Get Caught" is the primary rule.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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After that book, delve into his other 'facts':
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