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Is it just me, or is this apparently the reaction every time a US government or military system gets hacked by China?
"Yep, we got hacked again. But we're just going to do our best to minimize the damage and pretend it never happened. No meaningful action will be taken against the perpetrators."
http://i.imgur.com/sovN9Gp.jpg Is it just me, or is this apparently the reaction every time a US government or military system gets hacked by China? "Yep, we got hacked again. But we're just going to do our best to minimize the damage and pretend it never happened. No meaningful action will be taken against the perpetrators."
Almost like VPNs, proxies, TOR, compromised machines, botnets, or similar do not exist in this arena and that a reverse DNS lookup will tell them 1337.mss.gov.cn.
When the US talk about cybersecurity/"cyber wars" in general they're talking about something more akin to a Hollywood movie than anything you see on the ground on either side of the "fight."
I'm extremely sceptical every time they claim Chinese responsibility. I am sceptical not because China wouldn't have the skills or motivation to do so (they do/would) but because they jump to these conclusions unrealistically quickly and if their adversary covered their tracks even modestly pointing fingers like that would be quite hard (e.g. send it through Russia).
I always appreciate how the US are able to pin every network compromise directly back to China. And not just China but the Chinese government in particular. Almost like VPNs, proxies, TOR, compromised machines, botnets, or similar do not exist in this arena and that a reverse DNS lookup will tell them 1337.mss.gov.cn. When the US talk about cybersecurity/"cyber wars" in general they're talking about something more ak…
The article does not discuss much the motivation they might have had for this hack, aside from the fact they're probably looking for gaps in general US systems. But I'm very curious about the economics of hacking another nation's weather service; China could give itself significant (and creepy) economic advantages my MITMing the data from the satellites. I wonder if they're considering things like this? Edit: Also, i…
knowing how much your opponent knows about the weather is also pretty important.
...and so is knowing where they want to know about the weather.
I always appreciate how the US are able to pin every network compromise directly back to China. And not just China but the Chinese government in particular. Almost like VPNs, proxies, TOR, compromised machines, botnets, or similar do not exist in this arena and that a reverse DNS lookup will tell them 1337.mss.gov.cn. When the US talk about cybersecurity/"cyber wars" in general they're talking about something more ak…
http://i.imgur.com/sovN9Gp.jpg Is it just me, or is this apparently the reaction every time a US government or military system gets hacked by China? "Yep, we got hacked again. But we're just going to do our best to minimize the damage and pretend it never happened. No meaningful action will be taken against the perpetrators."
We can all sit back in our comfy chairs and debate whether it really is China or not, whether various networks are secure or not, or how much various agencies can store (and the dangers associated with them storing things). But we can only do that if we have recent and valid information about what's going on. Good public policy decisions depend on an informed electorate. This kind of situation is not the place to be covering up your mistakes.
I always appreciate how the US are able to pin every network compromise directly back to China. And not just China but the Chinese government in particular. Almost like VPNs, proxies, TOR, compromised machines, botnets, or similar do not exist in this arena and that a reverse DNS lookup will tell them 1337.mss.gov.cn. When the US talk about cybersecurity/"cyber wars" in general they're talking about something more ak…
tail -n 50 /var/log/auth.log
Nov 12 15:33:28 VPS-3167 sshd[11950]: Connection closed by 122.225.97.110 [preauth] [SNIP]
Nov 12 20:12:51 VPS-3167 sshd[12016]: Connection closed by 61.174.50.164 [preauth] [SNIP]
Nov 12 20:40:44 VPS-3167 sshd[12031]: Connection closed by 122.225.97.72 [preauth]
The list goes on and on, and the ip's in the last fifty lines were all Chinese or Russian, still they could also have been hacked themselves.
The article does not discuss much the motivation they might have had for this hack, aside from the fact they're probably looking for gaps in general US systems. But I'm very curious about the economics of hacking another nation's weather service; China could give itself significant (and creepy) economic advantages my MITMing the data from the satellites. I wonder if they're considering things like this? Edit: Also, i…
