States vs Chinese Hackers

Yesterday, the well-known InformationWeek resource pleased readers with a note that the Chinese in 2008 increased the number of cyber attacks on US government, military and civilian networks.

This joyful information is reported with reference to the report (pdf) to the US Congress of the USCC (US-China Economic and Security Review Commission). According to the report, all major defense enterprises, including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, suffered from cyber espionage.
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Congress itself proposes the Obama government to strengthen measures to protect computers from possible threats from intruders. As part of the campaign spoken during the election campaign of the idea of ​​strengthening the American IT sector.

The issue of cybercrime in the near future is proposed to be discussed with the leadership of China. yeah

As an illustration of the consequences of neglect of computer security issues, the following incidents are cited:
1 - in 2005, a Chinese hacker hacked NASA servers and downloaded from there some files containing information about the principle of operation of US interorbital spacecraft.
On November 2 - 18 of this year, one Chuan-Sheng Shu (Quan-Sheng Shu), who worked for the United States, admitted that he sold information about military missile developments to China.
3 - In early November, the Financial Times reported that “Chinese hackers entered the White House’s computer network and received information about electronic correspondence between US government officials.”

In continuation of yesterday 's flash drive story