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China-based Campaign Breached Satellite Operators, Defense Contractors and Telecommunications Companies in US: Symantec (reuters.com)
A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia, security researchers at Symantec Corp said on Tuesday. Reuters: Symantec said the effort appeared to be driven by national espionage goals, such as the interception of military and civilian communications. Such interception capabilities are rare but not unheard of, and the researchers could not say what communications, if any, were taken. More disturbingly in this case, the hackers infected computers that controlled the satellites, so that they could have changed the positions of the orbiting devices and disrupted data traffic, Symantec said. "Disruption to satellites could leave civilian as well as military installations subject to huge [real world] disruptions," said Vikram Thakur, technical director at Symantec. "We are extremely dependent on their functionality." Satellites are critical to phone and some internet links as well as mapping and positioning data. Symantec, based in Mountain View, California, described its findings to Reuters exclusively ahead of a planned public release. It said the hackers had been removed from infected systems.
And did they also sabotage Tesla? Or was that the "shorts" doing that? There are so many bad guys out there. It is a good thing companies like Symantec are out there stopping all this from happening.
Getting rid of competition like Kasperski like Goldman Sachs got rid of Bank of America. Not only destroying them in the country, but making every blame them too. An age-old strategy, actually dating back to the OSS and Nazis, and well-documented in the Snowden leaks.
When I read that initially, I thought the article was saying that Symantec was also breached.
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
How dare they do to us what we are probably doing to them.
Table-ized A.I.
We mustnâ(TM)t offend China
A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia, security researchers at Symantec Corp said on Tuesday.
I have no problem believing this. Seems legit. However, the TIMING of this report is extremely suspect. Why now? When there's a nasty trade-war brewing between China and the US. Yeah, suspect and shady as FUCK.
...to lose access to my own phone just so I could watch everyone freak out about not having access to theirs.
Why are these critical systems connected to a public network, THE INTERNET, in the first place? Air-gap these things!
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What happens from this announcement, that Symantec cares about, is that their name is in the headlines. Free advertising.
Policy makers, the President and Congressional committees, already know from classified (an unclassified) intelligence that China is spying on the US all over the place. This latest marketing announcement by Symantec isn't going to make much difference to policy makers. Symantec doesn't care that much anyway - they don't have a major Chinese competitor they are trying to get rid of.
The free advertising is what Symantec cares about. If my company had uncovered this incident, we would absolutely put out a press release right away, in order to get our name in the press.
Heck, look at any of my CVEs, such as 2012-0206.
https://www.securityfocus.com/...
Do you think I thought about what the president was doing when I found and reported that? No, but I do very much like the first three words in the official description of the vulnerability.
China is a great country that would never meddle like the USA does in Ukraine.
Slashdot is full of crazy conspiracy theories lately. You people need to get scientific facts about the fascist police state you're really living in: AE911Truth org
Go fucking hang you chink cocksucker! YOU'RE THE SHADY FUCK.
I hope a pine beetle eats your shredded rectum, because that's all the Chinese will leave you: a destroyed environment and a ruined anus.
... by ZTE.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I have no problem believing this. Seems legit. However, the TIMING of this report is extremely suspect. Why now? When there's a nasty trade-war brewing between China and the US. Yeah, suspect and shady as FUCK.
what a fucking clown you are!
you believe the report but you think the timing is fake
and the timing is explained in the report
coo-coo for coco-pufs
Good for them; and a plague on both their houses!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Christ almighty pull the jack already. It makes no sense at all that this type of stuff is connected to the internet.
I apologize I forgot to take my meds this morning.
You Sir, have enough anus for all of us. Dirtbag dumb ass.
That would not stop I I realize. But if China were loading bags of plague on planes heading for the USA we'd stop flights that originated in China from entering the us. They might move their operations to another country but the punishment would help them realize what they have to lose.
Satellite use in China has increased quite substancially as a way around their censorship. And yes, that includes Millitary / international spying.
Christ almighty pull the jack already. It makes no sense at all that this type of stuff is connected to the internet.
you expect intelligence from humans? you're just another dumb human
Know it. Use it. Love it.
When I worked in space control centers, we had air gapped control rooms. No VPN. No inbound traffic except through encrypted satellite links to the systems in space.
BTW, cell phones and cameras weren't allowed in the building either.
What has happened to our smart people? Do they need their diapers changed?
Ray, SYMANTEC's OWNED BY CHINESE INTERESTS Iirc, it's "ringing a bell" here that THAT is the case w/ Symantec (not always, but in the past 10 yrs. or so, they were bought up by them) - LOL, & isn't SECURITYFOCUS owned by SYMANTEC? Yes, they are iirc! ... & YOU ARE DOING "YOUR REPORTING" (stating long known fact on DNS weakess) FOR THEM raymorris...
(HOWEVER - maybe you didn't know that...)
APK
P.S.=> Like it or not, it's fact ray - BUT you're welcome to PROVE me wrong (& I'll eat it IF you can)... apk
What makes me laugh and also sad is that thrre are Americans who still think We Ho Lee is innocent.
We continue to buy junk from China and install it sensitive areas and now we are surprised that China has access to these areas? LOL. Between traitors in America like W, Trump, Manning, Snowden, and Schulte, combined with our buying equipment that is loaded with backdoors, it would be amazing if we were NOT fully compromised.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
while at the same time using electronic espionage and sabotage against all other countries in the world. Sorry, but nothing you say matter any more.
Just how sophisticated can this 'hacking campaign' be if it can so easily be traced all the way from China. Yet more Chinese commie cyber hacker bullshit re-spouted on the slashdot :]
You're willing to blame the Russian government?
"Following its customary stance, Symantec did not directly blame the Chinese government for the hack. It said the hackers launched their campaign from three computers on the mainland. In theory, those machines could have been compromised by someone elsewhere. "
If it quacks like a duck....
Anyone who connects critical infrastructure to the internet should be arrested.