Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#2The solarwinds hack gets more expansive every time we find out more. This really doesn't bode well.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#3Much better article: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hack...
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#4We’re all still here, so it could’ve gone slightly worse.
Maybe not much, though.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#5I am pointing the finger at Microsoft for allowing bad security practice in windows kernel, architecture and other aspects of the Windows operating system. I am have to hand it to Microsoft for the good job security.
However without knowing the extent of the incident, and going off of this part:
"At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only..."
It is more than likely this news story is overblown.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#6It feels like we're in the calm before the storm and nobody is watching the approaching squall.
China growing in power and influence, flexing itself on the global stage. The US waning internationally, citizens divided and full of hate.
We're factory-less, fab-less, and have fewer educated. Fewer consumers. Lots of debt.
We have SpaceX, but China's pace of exploration and international cooperation is increasing faster than NASA's.
The only advantage I can think of us our military and navy, but China has carrier-killers and ICBMs.
Zoomers on TikTok hate capitalism and the military, and it seems like they're being indoctrinated by an "algorithm". Or maybe it's the lack of opportunity we're providing for them.
If and when our tech companies and entertainment companies get leapfrogged, what will we have to export that brings us wealth?
What happens to democracy and liberty when the top economy and producer in the world is a single-party state?
I hope we're hacking back just as hard. That's what the NSA should be doing rather than domestic spying.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#7Bit of a misleading title by Reuters.
They accessed the business networks of the NNSA, the agency responsible for maintaining the nuclear stockpile, but did not access the networks managing the actual nuclear weapons, as the title half-implies.
There was no threat of random nuclear weapon exploits, those networks have not been compromised as far as we know.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#8Hopefully the networks that have launch and scheduling are fully airgapped.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#9Nobody worry: There's a security company named SolarWinds that has a lot of experience when it comes to getting hacked, and they've already got contracts with the Federal government. Working together, I'm sure the Feds & SolarWinds can leverage those existing relationships to help get to the bottom of this situation and make sure it never happens again.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#10Does this mean the nuclear systems are less secure than the voting machines?