 StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
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Re: Canada and the US Government hacked by China Well China owns a large part of the US plus it wouldn't surprise me to find that much of the gear in the WH was manufactured in China.
I'm not so quick to dismiss the story.
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kudos:1 | 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. Perhaps a secretaries computer in a related office might have been breached. I say this because such systems are normally "air-gapped" or isolated from other lower classed systems. I also do not place much credence on "according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident." To me it nothing but sensationalism, to get you to read more, especially since that is the article lead in first paragraph.
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| 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.
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kudos:1 | 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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