Many penetrations at the Department of Defense traced to China.
Analysts have code named the attacks Titan Rain and are divided as to
whether or not they are a coordinated effort by the Chinese government.
I think the more interesting question is why would the DoD release this
information to the press?
“Hi China we know what your doing?”
I don't think this should come as a surprise to anyone. Nations
have been spying on each other (friendly or enemy) from the begining of
nations. I think that these kind of cyber attacks will get much
more complex and clandestine in the near future.
A few month ago the U.S. military annouced the assembling of the world's most formidable, multimillion-dollar weapons grade hacker unit program in order to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks — from
electric grids to telephone nets.
Talk about cyberpunk and sci-fi come to life! This all sounds
like Tom Clancy's NetForce. Not my favorite Tom Clancy book but
great concept.
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