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Chinese and Iranian Hackers Renew Their Attacks on US Companies (nytimes.com)
Businesses and government agencies in the United States have been targeted in aggressive attacks by Iranian and Chinese hackers who security experts believe have been energized by President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year and his trade conflicts with China. From a report: Recent Iranian attacks on American banks, businesses and government agencies have been more extensive than previously reported. Dozens of corporations and multiple United States agencies have been hit, according to seven people briefed on the episodes who were not authorized to discuss them publicly. The attacks, attributed to Iran by analysts at the National Security Agency and the private security firm FireEye, prompted an emergency order by the Department of Homeland Security during the government shutdown last month.
The Iranian attacks coincide with a renewed Chinese offensive geared toward stealing trade and military secrets from American military contractors and technology companies, according to nine intelligence officials, private security researchers and lawyers familiar with the attacks who discussed them on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. A summary of an intelligence briefing read to The New York Times said that Boeing, General Electric Aviation and T-Mobile were among the recent targets of Chinese industrial-espionage efforts. The companies all declined to discuss the threats, and it is not clear if any of the hacks were successful.
The Iranian attacks coincide with a renewed Chinese offensive geared toward stealing trade and military secrets from American military contractors and technology companies, according to nine intelligence officials, private security researchers and lawyers familiar with the attacks who discussed them on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. A summary of an intelligence briefing read to The New York Times said that Boeing, General Electric Aviation and T-Mobile were among the recent targets of Chinese industrial-espionage efforts. The companies all declined to discuss the threats, and it is not clear if any of the hacks were successful.
... from my quake server.
who are also your countries nemesis. Strange times we live in...
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Yes, let's find a way to blame this on President Trump, even though cyber attacks from various foreign nations - and not just Iran and China - have been a constant reality of the Internet for decades by now.
But sure, blame it on President Trump. Because that's at all relevant.
I can pretty much guarantee that the attacks were successful, because my experience with military contractors is that the best and brightest do not go into military IT. There are just too many rigid procedures and policies to deal with, ironically making it nearly impossible to properly secure the network because you have to follow twelve binders of rules and regulations that in theory are to help you keep things secure.
Lots of people, strong economy, lots of successful trade relations, excellent technology and industrial expertise. It looks like you are a successful world power.
How about instead of copying the 'american model' you could stand up and a be decent trustworthy, and faithful country that we know you can be.
Every single Chinese person I have worked with or called a friend has been amazing.
When we see stuff like this on the net, it is just so disappointing as you are just following the 'others'. We waste so much utility battling eachother (economically, socially and militarily) and we could use that energy to do so much more.
Be a country your children's children will be proud of.
Signed, a hopeful future.
Communists and a theocratic republic sneaking around wide open US plain text networks.
Walking out entire US databases for free.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
i.e. can these things be blocked by the Great Firewall or do they have official sanction and a pass?
Dear America
Please be a decent, trustworthy country we know you can be
The world
Unofficially: We've compromised their networks and watched them do it.
The question is why say we know? Is this public notice actually a warning?
The major security agencies have slightly more sophisticated ways to tracking attack sources than the IP address!
Or stop with the unfounded accusations. It makes the US incredibly untrustworthy when you have definitely been proven to do exactly the very thing you accuse other countries of, but without providing evidence.
why wouldn't China and other return the favor? Here's an eye-opener for you: one of the NSA's core missions has always been what they call "technology retrieval", which is just a fancy way of saying industrial espionage.
It's always funny to see the US government and their little citizens accusing other countries of stealing from them.
And we can totally believe everything they tell us!
Well if I have to choose between the claims of various western security agencies or China i'm going to choose the former.
If you are a state employed hacker (and China and Russia have them) you attack what they want when they want. Its not always about money but infomation
I vaguely recall news that the US government has developed and is actively using tools that make US government hacking look like it is coming from there. So maybe the US is just lying again, and that is why this is a "public notice".
Well British security just said that Huawei gear isn't that bad and that any security concerns can be managed, so I guess their stuff is okay again.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are companies that collect information legally and openly, albeit in the fine print. To avoid that don't use their services.
China, Iran, and Russia have paid government workers who actively break into whatever they can and steal whatever they can for the benefit of their governments and private industries while giving nothing of value back.
If you fail to see the difference, you must be paid to do so or have the intellectual depth of a puddle.
the brand name used by the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG. So when discussing T-Mobile in the context of US Telecom it is usually the US Co which is a partially owned by DT.
It's not that we are inherently trustworthy, it's that we have a mostly open system so that our flaws are likely to be eventually found out such that we have to keep ourselves in check.
If you can get away with bad deeds, you will most likely increase your bad deeds. That's Human Nature 101. Checks and balances matter, and that generally requires openness, something China & Russia lack.
Table-ized A.I.
A headline that does not point Russia as being the evil culprit? There must be some secret lot against free world to suppress the information. Perhaps Russia is involved.
Correction: China, Russia, and Iran lack.
Table-ized A.I.
Wow, who the fuck marked this pavlovian kneekerk drivel as insightful? "USA! USA!"