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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by google234123 »

bigphishy wrote: post #5

I 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 tha…

Yeah, and if MS tries and change this and make the kernel more secure I would expect huge outrage on HN from people complaining about MS restricting their freedom.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by [deleted] »

ineedasername wrote: post #32
traes wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that it's impossible to tell if you're mildly upset at the current state of this post or asking a mod to change it.

That's the beauty of it: many invocations of "dang" in HN will be done for both reasons. I don't know the origin of that username, but it's grown into it's role.

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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by clankyclanker »

sjg007 wrote: post #18
clankyclanker wrote: post #4

We’re all still here, so it could’ve gone slightly worse. Maybe not much, though.

I wonder if we have dead man switches.. In a MAD world you would want to launch without human intervention from isolated systems.... I wonder how that would work... maybe it's not possible.

At least two, one for each Cold War power:

- ERCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/DRC-8_Emergency_Rocket_Comm...

- Perimeter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by bigphishy »

wow_never wrote: post #21
echelon wrote: post #6

It 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…

Why should the US claim moral authority? It’s the least moral country on Earth - stolen, racist, solely designed to funnel wealth to white men. China deserves it more than us.

I'm not sure if looking to China is the most intelligent move for equality in race and gender... e.g. there are many, so many female prostitutes.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by emptyparadise »

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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by javaIsGreat »

sjg007 wrote: post #14
ineedasername wrote: post #9

Nobody 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.

Has anyone tracked if these guys donated to the GOP and Trump?

I see this company has been consulting for government agencies for 20 years so idk if you can blame Trump for this one,

But it does look like the founders (who don't seem to be be involved with the company anymore for almost a decade) are repubs (biggest donation is 10K and mostly to Oklahoma and Texas regional politicians not national candidates):

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?...

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by bigphishy »

cardamomo wrote: post #36
echelon wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Capitalism is fuels our wealth machine. The military helps project power and protect our interests. If younger generations grow up hating these structures, they might vote against them.

I think younger generations believe that these structures have led to "the lack of opportunity we're providing for them," as you phrase it. By that reasoning, they should vote to change the military and economic status quo.

I have a lot of faith in the younger generations. They are much more desensitized to bullsh*t, and tiktok will quickly fade in popularity just like myspace and facebook.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by Andrex »

gen220 wrote: post #7

Bit 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.

> 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.

That they know of / are admitting at this time.

The damage could really be far worse. It's hard to tell right now I think.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by dvduval »

I have to wonder how many corporations have been hacked but we will never know, because they are worried about the value of their stock. This could actually be a much greater threat to hobbling our infrastructure or blackmailing wealthy people to do their bidding.
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