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| Thread ID: 123949 | 2012-03-27 23:12:00 | China Has Hacked Every Major US Company | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1267144 | 2012-03-27 23:12:00 | LINK::: . zdnet . com/blog/security/richard-clarke-china-has-hacked-every-major-us-company/11125?tag=nl . e589" target="_blank">www . zdnet . com Cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke is warning the U . S . that its major companies are being regularly infiltrated by Chinese hackers employed by the Chinese government to steal R&D . Richard Clarke, a former cybersecurity and cyberterrorism advisor for the White House, was a U . S . government employee for 30 years: between 1973 and 2003 . He worked during the times of Ronald Reagan, George H . W . Bush, Bill Clinton, and even George W . Bush . He may not be working under current U . S . president Barack Obama, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have something to warning (sic) about . He says state-sanctioned Chinese hackers are stealing R&D from U . S . companies, threatening the long-term competitiveness of America . We’ve heard this before, but the way Clarke puts it makes the situation look even more dire . “I’m about to say something that people think is an exaggeration, but I think the evidence is pretty strong,” Clarke said during an interview with the Smithsonian . “Every major company in the United States has already been penetrated by China . My greatest fear is that, rather than having a cyber-Pearl Harbor event, we will instead have this death of a thousand cuts . Where we lose our competitiveness by having all of our research and development stolen by the Chinese . And we never really see the single event that makes us do something about it . That it’s always just below our pain threshold . That company after company in the United States spends millions, hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of dollars on R&D and that information goes free to China… . After a while you can’t compete . ” Clarke notes that while the U . S . government is involved in espionage against other governments, it doesn’t hack Chinese companies and then hand over intelligence to their American counterparts . He argues that the same cannot be said for the Chinese government . Clarke’s most famous warning came 10 weeks in advance of the events of 9/11: on July 5, 2001 . The FAA, the Coast Guard, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the INS had gathered at the White House, where Clarke stated that “something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon . ” For the sake of the U . S . economy, let’s hope his warning about China doesn’t eclipse the one from over 10 years ago . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1267145 | 2012-03-27 23:39:00 | Its a bit late now They probably have got all they need. China can make anything they want High Speed trains (courtesy Germany and Japan) Solar power Low emission coal fired power stations Nuclear weapons Man in space High tech switching gear (Cisco) Wind power Cars Light bulbs (CFL) Mobile phones Skyscrapers Beautiful railway bridges San Franscico's new bridge (being shipped over now) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1267146 | 2012-03-27 23:50:00 | Yeah - I heard they hacked the US Navy for plans to build a fast bullet train. They accidentally got the rail gun plans instead. The train's really fast, but nobody buys a return ticket. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1267147 | 2012-03-28 01:31:00 | Those crafty Chinese did it the easy way, open a few factories with cheap labour and the US Companies fell over themselves to get their hardware made in China. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 1267148 | 2012-03-28 01:42:00 | I see that the US has just relaxed restrictions (www.nytimes.com) for analysts to conduct research and data mining pertaining to counterterriosm, on Americans that are not linked to terrorism. Records now kept for up to 5 years. Odd, that it does appear to involve anything about cyberterrorism, and that currently records are kept for up to 180 days, rather than just left open. It seems the National Intelligence centre is more focused on terrorism activities and focusing on their own citizens, than international cyber hacking. But then their is concern about the use of citizen's commercial/personal records from the FBI desclassified documents (www.wired.com). The records appear to be available, but not collated properly or cross referenced timely enough. Also odd that FBI has their own national security agency, and it's unclear how they got their intelligence records to mine people's information. I thought FBI worked under the Government and it's home security agencies. Then there is the Pentagon's own counter intelligence unit. Therfore seems a limited or cumbersome central process to weed out hacking and for terrorism. One National Intelligence Council but separate entities not effectively communicating. I suppose it's priority - Chinese/international hacking procedures or counter terrorism surveillance. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1267149 | 2012-03-28 02:02:00 | Those crafty Chinese did it the easy way, open a few factories with cheap labour and the US Companies fell over themselves to get their hardware made in China. I'm confused - are the Chinese scrutable or inscrutable? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1267150 | 2012-03-28 02:21:00 | I dunno, if you don't want data hacked don't put it on a server that's connected to the internet, simple. TV leads us to believe that everything can be hacked into remotely, it's just not true. I almost feel like if large companies get their research stolen it's their own fault for not securing it properly. Of course that doesn't stop the blatant reverse engineering and copying that goes on, but there's no need for hacking for that. | dugimodo (138) | ||
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