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Chinese Hackers Targeted IoT During Trump-Putin Summit (defenseone.com)
Zorro shares a report from Defense One: Four days before U.S. and Russian leaders met in Helsinki, hackers from China launched a wave of brute-force attacks on internet-connected devices in Finland, seeking to gain control of gear that could collect audio or visual intelligence, a new report says. Traffic aimed at remote command-and-control features for Finnish internet-connected devices began to spike July 12, according to a July 19 report by Seattle-based cybersecurity company F5.
China generally originates the largest chunk of such attacks; in May, Chinese attacks accounted for 29 percent of the total. But as attacks began to spike on July 12, China's share rose to 34 percent, the report said. Attacks jumped 2,800 percent. The China-based hackers' primary target was SSH (or Secure Shell) Port 22 -- not a physical destination but a specific set of instructions for routing a message to the right destination when the message hits the server. "SSH brute force attacks are commonly used to exploit systems and [internet of things, or IOT] devices online," the report says. "SSH is often used by IoT devices for 'secure' remote administration." The report notes that attack traffic came from the U.S., France, and Italy as well, but the U.S. and French traffic kept with its averages. "Russian attack traffic dropped considerably from third, its usual spot, to fifth," reports Defense One. "German attack traffic jumped."
China generally originates the largest chunk of such attacks; in May, Chinese attacks accounted for 29 percent of the total. But as attacks began to spike on July 12, China's share rose to 34 percent, the report said. Attacks jumped 2,800 percent. The China-based hackers' primary target was SSH (or Secure Shell) Port 22 -- not a physical destination but a specific set of instructions for routing a message to the right destination when the message hits the server. "SSH brute force attacks are commonly used to exploit systems and [internet of things, or IOT] devices online," the report says. "SSH is often used by IoT devices for 'secure' remote administration." The report notes that attack traffic came from the U.S., France, and Italy as well, but the U.S. and French traffic kept with its averages. "Russian attack traffic dropped considerably from third, its usual spot, to fifth," reports Defense One. "German attack traffic jumped."
China, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 2-hour Trump-Putin transcripts that are missing.
Do we know for sure its china? Everyone oursouces shit there, they are probably the middleman though.
I suspect that the translators didn't know either, considering the participants of the talks.
Putin is not the boogeyman
Putin is an ex-KGB Lieutenant Colonel. If you don't qualify him as being a serious threat then you don't know shit.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
So how is this Trump's fault? If Trump wanted to leak info to China, he would just do so.
You don't read a lot of /. do you?
For the record, stuff like this is why not releasing your tax returns is a big deal. We have no idea who has their hooks in Trump and how deep...
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Wait. What? You call him a racist, but if he was then why would you claim he wants to help China?
The barbarians are at the walls, and Trump is trying to hold open the gates, saying that no one's and there nothing to worry about. At least some of us have eyes and ears and are willing to use them.
Long term this is an unmitigated disaster, since it won't be just the Russians trying to manipulate the US if we've shown such remarkable defenselessness. China will want to grab hold on some of the puppet strings.
Wait. What? You call him a racist, but if he was then why would you claim he wants to help China?
Greed.
Google translate from trumpland to known universe:
trump behaves like a petulant child that didn't get their way. His attacks on the intelligence branch of the United States Military just read like nonsense now. Putin is not the boogeyman, he is a real active adversary of the US, similar to China. Unlike China's economic "attacks" Putin bases his on information warfare experience gained during his time in the KGB.
Ivan: "I am ordinary Texas housewife and appallled at our petulant media complaining of our glorious American President"
Igor: "I am fake counterpoint, I almost spit out my hot dog at mall with my confirmation of the petulant media while pretending to disagree"
Mikail: "Wow, you two really summed up the mood of ordinary Americans and their hatred of the mainstream newspapers and China".
Get a room you three.... oh wait, you share a cubicle, so technically you have already.
The peepee thing, the pepe thing....all plausible but no one cares. Track something substantive like the deep state or the number of 1950s cars in Cuba.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Wall of diarrhea...try again when you turn 18
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
MSM only act that way because thier viewers are that way. ....or maybe it is the other way around?
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
According to Russian press, he agreed to Russian intelligence interviewing US intelligence and diplomatic staff, under oath to get to the bottom of Russian meddling in the US elections. According to Huckerbee Sanders, he didn't pinky swear so it doesn't count.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/white-house-proposal-putin-mcfaul/index.html
He literally thinks the fix to his treason is to appoint 'Ivan Muellersky', a KGB man, run an investigation using Russian intelligence, to exonerate himself and swap the Russian investigation for the US investigation.
He's appointed to the lawyer for Russias Alfabank (Brian Benczkowski) as the head of criminal prosecutions at the FBI.... that's Putin's money laundering bank.
Hear the silence from the GOP? See the fake smiles form Fox and Friends as even they struggle to swallow the treason.
It's pretty obvious that Trump shows the signs of someone who willfully obliges in advance for fear of being blackmailed. That's what upsets the people in the US intelligence community so much. You have to understand that in ordinary elections, the candidates are checked before the final stages - they get in some room with old farts who have been in many intelligence committees and are asked: So, Mister X, is there anything we should know about your past before we go on endorsing your candidacy?
As probably the first US president in history, Trump skipped that step, and it's apparent to anyone knowing something about human beings that he fucked prostitutes all over the world in the past without caring whether he might be recorded or not. Once the president is elected, POTUS has full access to all top-secret classified information and there is no vetting or background checking of the president himself. That's the problem.
I understand why someone like you who is butthurt because of Trump's unpopularity and blinded by partisan politics cannot recognize this problem, but for people who know things work in the world Trump is potentially a huge problem and liability. Another issue is that Trump frequently leaks highly classified intelligence data, inadvertently when he's boasting and just can't keep his mouth shut.
Depends on what you mean by 'need' here. I mean sure, the US is large enough and wealthy enough that you could survive on your own, but with both China and the US the thing is that exporting goods and services is deeply integral to the economy and society. The US is the second largest export economy in the world. And that's only counting stuff you directly export to other countries. When you factor in the fact that most of the top US companies do business globally via subsidiaries which - depending on how the corporations and sales are structured - may not show up at all as exports, it becomes even more clear just how connected you and everyone else is to the global economy.
So could you 'make it on your own'? Absolutely, and moreso than most other western countries, including for example my own small country (Finland) that's more heavily dependent on exports because the domestic market is small. Buuut at the same time seizing exports would cause a significant dent in your economy, lead to shrinking of the economy, loss of millions jobs which in turn would lower the incomes of Americans leading to reduced domestic demand, and in general diminished influence on the global stage. It would be survivable, but it wouldn't be pleasant 'business as usual' stuff. Same goes with China who exports even more than you do.
So that being the case I'd say the US does in fact need the rest of the world, not in terms of survival, but in terms of maintaining your current economic status and the quality of life it brings.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
Sure the Russians try to manipulate the US people and the Chinese want to manipulate, but so do the people in power that hold your welth and have an American passport.
Just because their passport sayd "No1 Country" does not mean they have amny interest in you, the wellbeing of your fellow sitizens or anything that the country has been, is or stands for.
Do not think that if you hand over the puppet strings to anybody, that they are somehow treat you different than a puppet.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Sorry, but I don't think that would suffice. So far Trump has shown no embarrassment even to things that would cause just about everyone in the country to turn red with shame.
My guess is that Putin threatened him physically. He is known to be a physical coward (see "cadet bone spurs") and that this is being hidden behind a facade that he's being blackmailed over kinky sex. This might even explain a couple of KGB assassinations in Britain, though that's a bit of a stretch.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
You mean the sanctions that Trump has doubled down on? Do you mean the act of selling missiles to a neighboring country? Do you mean calling out Germany for propping up Putin by buying their energy resources?
I'm trying really hard to figure out which of these sanctions have been "lifted".
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
I think you underestimate the importance of US agricultural exports to China, but just how much that would affect the leadership is another question. They could clearly direct a lot of the resentment over any tight belts against the clearly malign policies of the US government. They wouldn't even need to lie.
Also China has been building ties with various other agricultural exporting countries, so the importance of the US is probably less than it was. And despite the problems it caused, the "one child per family" policy did reduct the population of China substantially, and now economics and family planning are letting them manage the population size (with, admittedly, a lot of lag in the feedback).
It's been clear for quite awhile that the US was falling out of the dominant nation position, and perhaps we can thank Trump for getting us into a secondary position without the common accompaniment of a huge war. This would be a very good thing, as being the "top nation" is generally a bad thing for a country. Perhaps China will be up to it, or at least long enough for an AI to make the matter irrelevant in one way or another. I'd been hoping for the US to hold onto the top position, but it has clearly been in decay mode for decades, with less and less concern being given to it's national ideal and more concern to holding onto power. In olden times this is a mode that could last for centuries, but that was with weaponry that was considerably less powerful than the current weaponry. Fortunately, like the US, China is predominately introverted and moved to economic dominance. I hope that they aren't too introverted to continue development of space, but we still seem to be pushing them there, at least in the shape of SpaceX and possibly Blue Origin. (NASA appears moribund, but I can hope I'm wrong.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.