Pentagon - the storie continues....

[jerryhopper 285]

ARGH! UPGRADE your firewalls!  Block all CHINESE ip ranges.

DONT use chinese software, coz YOUR computer could be used in WW3!

According to the pentagon, another enemy is lurking!  Major cyber attacks agains the pentagon have revealed this new evil in the world.

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.

for the paranoid people,here is little list of 'chinese networks' that you should definatly block.

Quote[/b] ]Oriental Cable Network Co., Shanghai

China Guangdong Province Network

China Fujian Province Network

China Hubei Province Network

China Beijing Province Network

China Hangzhou Node Network

Shanghai sichuanshengpenganxianjianyezonggongsi Co., Ltd

China Anhui Province Network

China United Telecommunications Corporation, Xicheng District, Beijing, China

China Jiangmen Broadband Network

Interesting? maybe it is if you knew this list comes from an article dated 2005.

hacking has been a problem for years, and today we're at the virge of a 'virtual war' according to the news.....

Enough with my nonsense....

lets get some 'credible' sources.

"Pentagon, she's all yours!"

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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 attackâ€. 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.â€

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 societyâ€.

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.

SOURCE:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol....865.ece

Blocking Chinese Ip's

SOURCE :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/31/blocking_chinese_ip_addresses/

(damn! i made a typo in the title of this post. - sorry!

[baddo 0]

Just unplug network cables

Well it's not that simple as you isolate yourself then.

I would be surprised if the USA would not practise similar kind of warfare. I just don't believe they are so clean as they try to imply.

This only proves that we need to keep alternatives available. In WW II some Nordic country used "running men" to arrange communication between military units as they lacked better means at that battle (very victorious battle btw).

Carrier pigeons. Bottles into the ocean with a message inside. Bonfires. Now try to hack those!

Edit: A detail, the Germans used hawks against carrier pigeons in WW II. Don't know about the effectiveness of that... I mean how many pigeons can a hawk eat per day?

[wex-q 0]

I'll be hiding in Bahnhofs new serverroom, which is nuclear-protected.

And it got internet!

[Mr_Tea 0]

It`s not an Joke, several German Government networks where hacked "by China".

That`s an very serious issue. The Chinese Government say`d that they will fight against hackers from China, but i doubt that they will stop operations of their Secret Service.

On the other hand, American Services are spying foreign Companies very intense, because they have to stay "on top of the world".

A patent is worth nothing, if the technology could be interesting for the military for example.

[Major Fubar 0]

No offense intended to anyone, but we are getting waaay too many new political threads started here lately.

Please use one of these existing threads wherever possible:

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The Iraq thread 4

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Thank you.