Report Cites China's Cyber-Warfare Plans
Roy Mark writes for eWeek:
If the United States and China were to find themselves in an armed conflict, China is likely to launch cyber attacks on American regional bases in Japan and South Korea, and might even include cyber attacks on the U.S. homeland that target financial, economic, energy and communications infrastructures.More here.
According to Gen. James Cartwright, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, China is already actively engaging in cyber-reconnaissance through the probing of computer networks of U.S. government agencies and private companies.
Cartwright said the data collected from these reconnaissance probes can be used for many purposes, including identifying network weak points, understanding how U.S. leaders think, discovering the communication patterns of government agencies and private companies, and gaining valuable information stored throughout the networks.
posted by Fergie @ 11/20/2007 11:43:00 AM
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Not only have they probed networks within the DOD and .mil grids, they also use defense contractor’s networks to gain intelligence on future weapons. The Barksdale AFB Cyber Operations Command was assembled because of the emerging threat of Cyber Warfare but it is in its infancy! We have fallen into a level complacency with respect to our cyber infrastructure while our dependence on it has become our undeniable. We can learn much from the country of Estonia when their cyber infrastructure was under a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack from Russian servers. The days of the Ostrich principle are over. Unfortunately DHS will probably not address this issue until there is a digital chalk outline!
Charles Dodd CISSP
President
Black Ops Consulting
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