Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors
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#2Paywall workaround: http://archive.is/KMi5Y
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#3> The victims have included large contractors as well as small ones, some of which are seen as lacking the resources to invest in securing their networks.
That does not compute. If they want to become a defense contractor, it stands to reason not spending resources on securing their network (and educating their employees against phishing attacks) is a non-starter.
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#4Is this a surprise? I imagine many powerful countries' cyberespionage groups are going after the other side.
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#5A slightly different headline would be "Navy has lousy security practices especially regarding contractors"
I'm pretty sure the CIA and NSA do their utmost to spy as much as they can on the Chinese and Russian Navy.
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#6A slightly different headline would be "Navy has lousy security practices especially regarding contractors" I'm pretty sure the CIA and NSA do their utmost to spy as much as they can on the Chinese and Russian Navy.
Excellent job moralizing, comrade.
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#7Do procurement contracts have clauses that discount the purchase price when proprietary information is lost to reflect the diminished value of the product?
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#8Do procurement contracts have clauses that discount the purchase price when proprietary information is lost to reflect the diminished value of the product?
This is an excellent question. I can imagine the difficulty of such clause would be to quantify the value that was diminished due to a breach in financial terms. Most likely the case is that the government has a vested interest in keeping tight security over their program - from engineering to manufacturing and small suppliers rely on security engagement from the gov. Big suppliers such as General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman, I am sure security breaches are taken very seriously and it would impact future supplier selection process and bidding.
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#9> The victims have included large contractors as well as small ones, some of which are seen as lacking the resources to invest in securing their networks. That does not compute. If they want to become a defense contractor, it stands to reason not spending resources on securing their network (and educating their employees against phishing attacks) is a non-starter.
Why? You can be a “defense contractor” as a one person show out of your garage.
The requirements for selling a toilet to the navy were written at a time when these issues didn’t exist. That the biggest bureaucracy on earth doesn’t respond well to new threats seems ecpected not odd.
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#10A slightly different headline would be "Navy has lousy security practices especially regarding contractors" I'm pretty sure the CIA and NSA do their utmost to spy as much as they can on the Chinese and Russian Navy.
@snowden sold us out to china when he fled in 2013, by revealing details about our spying operation on them. apparently they bolstered their defenses after this, due to this information, meanwhile stepping up offensive attacks against the United States