pentagon hacked by chinese - system had to be shut down

It's official. The pentagon got hacked and some of the systems needed to shut down.

This is the second major attack by suspected Chinese military personal after Germany a couple of weeks ago.

China's begging to be cut out from the internet, do you think so? A second threat is the cyber-jihad by extreme Muslims.

Source "Financial Times"

 

Yeah that would be nice. The only source of outside knowledge besides people to come to china in the last 50 years should be cut away.. quite a bit of anti-China sentiment going around right now. Then again its no where close to the amount of anti-USA sentiment going around!

 

I will never understand why the govt. keeps extremely secret info on computers connected to the internet anyway...just unplug them from the network or at least have them on an in house only network....

 

At the very least, the Pentagon should be running Norton Anti-Virus.

 

And if they have not enough money to purchase original version , they could always download warez version or email me for a cracked copy

 

Why pay for it? AVG Free should to the job (And Micrsoft XP SP2 firewall)

 

lol....

im sure if a hacker can hack into the pentagon and get away with it i am sure he knows how to get around norton and windows firewall with his eyes closed...

the only real protection from hackers is other hackers who work for you.

 

lol... I think they will do good with Avast...

 

Well, that still leaves Lavasoft Ad Aware. I think it would be hard for a Chinese hacker to get through the German version without Google Translate.

 

when i was reading this i realised of the movie die hard 4

 

Can you post the link? Generally not posting a link means its distorted or not true.

 

They couldn't pay it even if they wanted to! Just look what their priorities are!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602230.html?hpid=topnews

 

Hmm... I forget, who created the internet? DARPA, maybe?

Also, if you want to understand, enlist as a computer guy... You'll understand...

 

Al Gore.

 

Wow, you would think that we would learn from the earlier attacks..

 

It was a terroriririst attack....nuke em all ta hell and back!


Let god sort em out!

 

The chinese are hacking everywhere. And so are the US, dont be blue eyed and think that the US have not attempted to hack chinas government departments. Let them keep on hacking each other, the security they are developing will be made available to me and you later so its good for us.

 

I heard a rumour that it was hackers inspired by al-Qaeda.

 

I'm pretty sure at this point, AGS could successfully hack the pentagon if he chose to. In all seriousness, we have horrible computer security at the government level...

 

China denies hacking into Pentagon

By Richard McGregor in Beijing and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
Published: September 4 2007 22:58 | Last updated: September 4 2007 22:58

China strongly denied reports on Tuesday that its military was behind a successful hacking attack on the Pentagon computer network earlier this year.
Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday the accusations against China were “absurd”.

“The criticism is unfounded, which represents cold war thinking,” she said.
Ms Yu was responding to a report in Monday’s Financial Times that the Peoples’ Liberation Army in June successfully penetrated an unclassified computer network serving the office of Robert Gates, the US defence secretary.
The Pentagon is still investigating to see exactly how the attack occurred. But ­current and former US officials told the FT that the PLA had managed to obtain information from the network, which was then shut down for more than a week for repairs ...

Financial times