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Re: Canada and the US Government hacked by China said by KodiacZiller:said by chrisretusn:I am not dismissing the story. I don't buy the part in the quote to whit:
Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident. This at best is a huge exaggeration. I very much doubt that a "most" sensitive computer network used for nuclear commands was breached. I concur. It is extremely doubtful such a system is setup as being accessible from the public Internet. As you said it sounds like some ignorant secretary running Doze opened a malicious .PDF from a spear phishing email. social engineering can close any gap.
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| said by AVD:said by KodiacZiller:said by chrisretusn:I am not dismissing the story. I don't buy the part in the quote to whit:
Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident. This at best is a huge exaggeration. I very much doubt that a "most" sensitive computer network used for nuclear commands was breached. I concur. It is extremely doubtful such a system is setup as being accessible from the public Internet. As you said it sounds like some ignorant secretary running Doze opened a malicious .PDF from a spear phishing email. social engineering can close any gap. If the sensitive systems are not on the Internet, then social engineering via e-mail wont work.
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kudos:1 | said by KodiacZiller:If the sensitive systems are not on the Internet, then social engineering via e-mail wont work.
wrong.
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