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China… Cyberattack…Didn’t I Just Post on This?
By Charlie
China Link Suspected in Lab Hacking
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 — A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government’s nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a confidential memorandum distributed Wednesday to public and private security officials by the Department of Homeland Security.Security researchers said the memorandum, which was obtained by The New York Times from an executive at a private company, included a list of Web and Internet addresses that were linked to locations in China. However, they noted that such links did not prove that the Chinese government or Chinese citizens were involved in the attacks. In the past, intruders have compromised computers in China and then used them to disguise their true location.
Officials at the lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, said the attacks did not compromise classified information, though they acknowledged that they were still working to understand the full extent of the intrusion.
Two things here:
Legally, cyber-attacks are in the same category as electronic attack, which is the same as firing off a cruise missile. Just because cyber attacks have no causalities, they can still cause damage to critical systems.
Technically, we have to figure out how to “connect the dots” and figure out exactly where these attacks originated from.
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I run a website for a large medical claims company. Hackers from China try to hack into our site every day of the week.
This behavior tells you something about our "great trading and technology partner." We are feeding the sharks.
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Figure out where they came from? We already know where they came from - CHINA.