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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.
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.
Wait. What? You call him a racist, but if he was then why would you claim he wants to help China?
Greed.
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