Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Chinese committ a successful cyber attack against the US Defense Dept.

While we've all been distracted by lead paint on our children's toys, the People's Liberation Army is hacking our defense dept. computers?  I wonder about China.  Are they getting ready to attack us, or is this just par for the course with them? 

Submitted by Rick Perlstein on September 4, 2007 - 12:24pm.

And these people think they can neutralize Iran?

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.

The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.

Current and former officials have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the People’s Liberation Army.

Read the whole thing.

Source: Pentagon can't even secure its own computers | Campaign for America's Future

 

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