China Launching Constant Attacks on US Military Networks
China Launching Constant Attacks on US Military NetworksU.S. military computer networks are under constant attack. And the rate of attack is skyrocketing, from 300 in 2003 to more than 75,000 last year. "Our adversaries are able to inflict a substantial amount of harassment and a measurable amount of damage upon DOD communications networks at practically no cost to themselves," says the director of technology for the military group responsible for defending networks. So who is our adversary? Who is checking constantly for ways to breach Defense systems and learn about classified military plans? Al Qaeda? China, according to an article today on FCW.com. The article quotes former Army chief of staff Jack Keane: "The Chinese were doing this on a regular basis. That’s a given. They’re very aggressively getting capability. It’s common knowledge in the Pentagon."
Chinese Presence Grows in Russian Far East
In the mosquito-infested fields of Russia's Far East, Chinese pick tomatoes. In the markets, they sell cheap jeans and backpacks and fix shoes. At construction sites, they rebuild cities. As China and Russia embark on a new stage of cooperation by holding joint military exercises launched from the Pacific port of Vladivostok, the Chinese presence is growing in this hardscrabble region thousands of miles from Moscow. It's too early to talk of an imminent Chinese takeover, local experts say, despite such worries by some Russian politicians. Still, they acknowledge that China's hunger for resources and territory as its population and economy boom could eventually make the Far East an alluring target. "Russia has 30 to 40 years to become an equal partner with China in Asia. ... If Russia doesn't, then China could start to have territorial pretensions," said Mikhail Shinkovskiy, director of the Institute of International Relations and Social Technologies at Vladivostok State University of Economics and Science. Russia seized the Far East from China in the 1800s, back when Russian imperial ambitions were at their height and China was a weak country that could be pushed around. Now, the tables are turned. China's military is seeking to broaden its influence while Russian forces deteriorate to a shadow of their former Soviet might.
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Fjordman,
Back in 2001-2003, I was corresponding quite a bit with a friend of mine who lived in San Francisco, and worked as an IT guy in the famous "Pyramid" building for Bank of America. (It used to be known as the Transamerica building.)
Anyway, he told me two interesting things.
1) That Al Qaeda had targeted this building for attack. And the employees were often warned, evacuated, etc.
2) that the Bank of America computer system was under constant attack from China.
It has always bothered me that my friend was on the front line of defense there at Bank of America because he hates America and Capitalism. I don't know that he's a very good soldier for us.
Eventually, I fell out of contact with him, because our views conflict to such an extreme degree.
Anyway, I guess that's all a tangent, but suffice it to say, not only is China attacking military computer systems, but they are attacking our businesses as well.
We have a lot of enemies, don't we?
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