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Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military
    #7392550 - 09/10/07 04:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2409865.ece

Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable America’s aircraft battle carrier fleet with a devastating cyber attack, according to a Pentagon report obtained by The Times.

The blueprint for such an assault, drawn up by two hackers working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is part of an aggressive push by Beijing to achieve “electronic dominance” over each of its global rivals by 2050, particularly the US, Britain, Russia and South Korea.

China’s ambitions extend to crippling an enemy’s financial, military and communications capabilities early in a conflict, according to military documents and generals’ speeches that are being analysed by US intelligence officials. Describing what is in effect a new arms race, a Pentagon assessment states that China’s military regards offensive computer operations as “critical to seize the initiative” in the first stage of a war.

The plan to cripple the US aircraft carrier battle groups was authored by two PLA air force officials, Sun Yiming and Yang Liping. It also emerged this week that the Chinese military hacked into the US Defence Secretary’s computer system in June; have regularly penetrated computers in at least 10 Whitehall departments, including military files, and infiltrated German government systems this year.


Cyber attacks by China have become so frequent and aggressive that President Bush, without referring directly to Beijing, said this week that “a lot of our systems are vulnerable to attack”. He indicated that he would raise the subject with Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, when they met in Sydney at the Apec summit. Mr Hu denied that China was responsible for the attack on Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary.

Larry M. Wortzel, the author of the US Army War College report, said: “The thing that should give us pause is that in many Chinese military manuals they identify the US as the country they are most likely to go to war with. They are moving very rapidly to master this new form of warfare.” The two PLA hackers produced a “virtual guidebook for electronic warfare and jamming” after studying dozens of US and Nato manuals on military tactics, according to the document.

The Pentagon logged more than 79,000 attempted intrusions in 2005. About 1,300 were successful, including the penetration of computers linked to the Army’s 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the 4th Infantry Division. In August and September of that year Chinese hackers penetrated US State Department computers in several parts of the world. Hundreds of computers had to be replaced or taken offline for months. Chinese hackers also disrupted the US Naval War College’s network in November, forcing the college to shut down its computer systems for several weeks. The Pentagon uses more than 5 million computers on 100,000 networks in 65 countries.

Jim Melnick, a recently retired Pentagon computer network analyst, told The Times that the Chinese military holds hacking competitions to identify and recruit talented members for its cyber army.

He described a competition held two years ago in Sichuan province, southwest China. The winner now uses a cyber nom de guerre, Wicked Rose. He went on to set up a hacking business that penetrated computers at a defence contractor for US aerospace. Mr Melnick said that the PLA probably outsourced its hacking efforts to such individuals. “These guys are very good,” he said. “We don’t know for sure that Wicked Rose and people like him work for the PLA. But it seems logical. And it also allows the Chinese leadership to have plausible deniability.”

In February a massive cyber attack on Estonia by Russian hackers demonstrated how potentially catastrophic a preemptive strike could be on a developed nation. Pro-Russian hackers attacked numerous sites to protest against the controversial removal in Estonia of a Russian memorial to victims of the Second World War. The attacks brought down government websites, a major bank and telephone networks.

Linton Wells, the chief computer networks official at the Pentagon, said that the Estonia attacks “may well turn out to be a watershed in terms of widespread awareness of the vulnerability of modern society”.

After the attacks, computer security experts from Nato, the EU, US and Israel arrived in the capital, Tallinn, to study its effects.

Sami Saydjari, who has been working on cyber defence systems for the Pentagon since the 1980s, told Congress in testimony on April 25 that a mass cyber attack could leave 70 per cent of the US without electrical power for six months.

He told The Times that all major nations – including China – were scrambling to defend against, and working out ways to cause, “maximum strategic damage” by taking out banking systems, power grids and communications networks. He said that there were at least a thousand attempted attacks every hour on American computers. “China is aggressive in this,” he said.

Programmed to attack

Malware: a “Trojan horse” programme, which hides a “malicious code” behind an innocent document, can collect usernames and passwords for e-mail accounts. It can download programmes and relay attacks against other computers. An infected computer can be controlled by the attacker and directed to carry out functions normally available only to the system owner.

Hacking: increasingly a method of attack used by countries determined to use electronic means to gain access to secrets. Government computers in Britain have a network intrusion detection system, which monitors traffic and alerts officials to “misuse or anomalous behaviour”.

Botnets: compromised networks that an attacker can exploit. Deliberate programming errors in software can easily pass undetected. Attackers can exploit the errors to take control of a computer. Botnets can be used for stealing information or to collect credit card numbers by “sniffing” or logging the strokes of a victim’s keyboard.

Keystroke loggers: they record the sequence of key strokes that a user types in. Logging devices can be fitted inside the computer itself.

Denial of service attacks: overloading a computer system so that it can no longer function. This is the method allegedly used by the Russians to disrupt the Estonian government computers in May.

Phishing and spoofing: designed to trick an organisation’s customers into imparting confidential information such as passwords, personal data or banking details. Those using this method impersonate a “trusted source” such as a bank or IT helpdesk to persuade the victim to hand over confidential information


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Re: Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #7399296 - 09/12/07 01:27 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

China says suffers "massive" Internet spy damage

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has suffered "massive" losses of state and military secrets through the Internet, a senior official said, urging sweeping controls and new security agencies to fight computer threats and uncensored news.

Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian's claims come as China faces reports that it has raided the computer networks of Western powers.

He did not address those allegations, but depicted his country as the target of a campaign of computer infiltration and subversion and he proposed new investment and censorship controls to counter the threat.

"The Internet has become the main technological channel for external espionage activities against our core, vital departments," he wrote in a magazine, Chinese Cadres Tribune.

"In recent years Party, government and military organs and national defense scientific research units have had many major cases of loss, theft and leakage of secrets, and the damage to national interests has been massive and shocking."

He did not detail any of these cases.

China's computer networks were riddled with security holes that made a mockery of the ruling Communist Party's censorship and exposed valuable secrets to spies, Lou said.

The United States and other "hostile" powers were exploiting those weakness and their dominance of technology and standards to use the Internet for "political infiltration", he said.

China's Ministry of Information Industry is one of several agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security and party propaganda department, that seek to control the country's Internet.

Lou urged a more unified approach, with a "state information security administration office" and a new agency to scrutinize the computer security implications of foreign business moves.

The new screening agency would "resolve the Internet and information security issues of major foreign investments, major mergers and acquisitions, major technology product and service projects and major international science and technology cooperation," Lou wrote.

His paper appeared in the September issue of the magazine, which is published by the Central Party School, an elite training academy.

Foreign officials have alleged through news reports that China has been mounting Internet raids on government computer networks in the United States, Germany, Britain and other countries -- allegations China has denied.

Lou said it was the United States and other developed powers that threatened China online.

They employed teams of writers to compile "harmful information" and exaggerated reports about bad news in China, he said, citing reports about mine disasters, medical problems and other volatile social issues.

"As soon as a major social situation occurs, Internet opinion makes waves and it becomes extremely easy for street politics to break out, directly threatening social stability," he wrote, apparently referring to public protests.

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Re: Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #7399317 - 09/12/07 01:48 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Hey Russia and China:

I'm telling ya, you want to knock us out and stop all this madness, knock out our technology.


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Re: Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military [Re: Lightningfractal]
    #7399515 - 09/12/07 05:03 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Hmmm... US got upset at China for bad food items and lead paint on toys.  Few days later China replied that inspection of US goods shows microscopic worms in the packaging, substandard quality, etc, etc, etc...  Based upon this, in a few days China should be claiming that the US military is infiltrating Chinese computer systems and destroying their data.  :rolleyes:

(This is like watching two spoiled children fight over the same baby toy.)


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Re: Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military [Re: Seuss]
    #7399659 - 09/12/07 06:51 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

They already did. I read the report today. I am not sure if it's today's report, but it mentioned the report in this thread, so it was reported after this one.

I think I saw the report on the Shroomery, too.


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Re: Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military [Re: Seuss]
    #7399873 - 09/12/07 08:35 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Seuss said:
Hmmm... US got upset at China for bad food items and lead paint on toys.  Few days later China replied that inspection of US goods shows microscopic worms in the packaging, substandard quality, etc, etc, etc...  Based upon this, in a few days China should be claiming that the US military is infiltrating Chinese computer systems and destroying their data.  :rolleyes:

(This is like watching two spoiled children fight over the same baby toy.)




Cold war all over again, except I have a feeling this one's gonna get hot.


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Re: Pentagon claims that Chinas hackers are sabotaging military [Re: Seuss]
    #7400546 - 09/12/07 12:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Seuss said:
Hmmm... US got upset at China for bad food items and lead paint on toys.  Few days later China replied that inspection of US goods shows microscopic worms in the packaging, substandard quality, etc, etc, etc...  Based upon this, in a few days China should be claiming that the US military is infiltrating Chinese computer systems and destroying their data.  :rolleyes:

(This is like watching two spoiled children fight over the same baby toy.)




Actually a pretty good analogy, im glad i can bring discussions and articles like this to P & L


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