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[China’s cyber army is preparing to march on America, says Pentagon]

China’s cyber army is preparing to march on America, says Pentagon



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.

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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 attack”.

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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.

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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.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle2409865.ece

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Let the games begin!

[Link To Site:]

China suspected in New Zealand hacking

Wellington (dpa) - Foreign government hackers have raided official New Zealand websites, stealing information and installing spying software, the country's secret service chief told a newspaper in a report published on Tuesday.

Warren Tucker, director of the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), would not name any country responsible but referred to comments by Canadian security officials about Chinese spying activities, the Dominion Post reported.

Tucker told the paper there was evidence that foreign governments were responsible for the attacks and in some cases, departments did not even realise their computer systems had been breached.

He said information he described as sensitive had been stolen and attempts were made to access classified information.

Tucker said that one department's system had been penetrated and a programme inserted to generate bogus but genuine looking e-mails. He would not identify the department.

He said the SIS was stepping up foreign intelligence gathering and had increased security awareness in government departments.

The paper said Russia and China had been implicated in attacks on the British parliament's computer system and China was accused last week of hacking into German government systems and the Pentagon in the United States.

Link To Site:

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But - but China is our friend.

[People’s Liberation Army]

China accused of hacking into heart of Merkel administration
From The Times
August 27, 2007
Roger Boyes in Berlin

China has hacked into the computers of Angela Merkel’s Chancellery and three other German ministries in an extraordinary economic espionage operation that threatens to blight the German leader’s already delicate trip to Beijing this week.

The claims, made in a detailed investigation by Der Spiegel magazine, were denied strenuously by the Chinese authorities yesterday, but there was no mistaking German anger. “If true, it is unacceptable,” Ralf Stegner, a senior Social Democrat, said. “China is a competitor as well as a trading partner. Mrs Merkel has to get to the bottom of the affair on her China trip.”

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The information was being siphoned off almost daily by hackers in Lanzhou, northern China, in Canton province and in Beijing. The scale and the nature of the data being stolen suggest, the investigators say, that the operation must have been steered by the State and, in particular, the People’s Liberation Army.

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Handbook of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, November 1984

[The sensational episodes of online warfare raise critical questions about the preparedness - or lack thereof]

Can India survive a Chinese cyber attack?
Venkatesan Vembu
Wednesday, September 05, 2007  00:22 IST

Beijing has been strengthening its ability to wage e-warfare; has already hacked into US and Germany's defence networks

HONG KONG: How vulnerable is India to a cyber attack by the Chinese military? The chilling question assumes significance in the light of revelations that twice in the past three months, cyber-war experts within the Chinese military have been caught virtually red-handed hacking into defence and economic computer networks in Germany and the US.

China ---- and other countries, including India ----- routinely engage in cyber reconnaissance by probing computer networks of other governments. However, the Chinese hacking of the Pentagon computer network in June, in particular, was the most successful cyber attack on the US Defence Department, and demonstrated the Chinese military's capacity to disrupt systems at critical times, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

The sensational episodes of online warfare raise critical questions about the preparedness - or lack thereof - of systems in India to withstand a cyber attack by China. Just last week, gaping holes in the Indian e-security environment were shown up when a Swedish "ethical hacker" blogged details of e-mail accounts and passwords of several Indian government institutions, including the Defence Research and Development Organisation, the National Defence Academy, and the Indian embassies in China and the US (among a few other countries).

Link To Site:

[China 'hacked Australian government computers'By Patrick Walters]

China 'hacked Australian government computers'By Patrick Walters
September 12, 2007 07:15am

• Computer networks were classified
• Federal Government will not comment
• New Zealand confirms foreign hacking

CHINA has allegedly tried to hack into highly classified government computer networks in Australia and New Zealand as part of a broader international operation to glean military secrets from Western nations.

The Howard Government yesterday would neither confirm nor deny that its agencies, including the Defence Department, had been subject to cyber attack from China, but government sources acknowledge that thwarting such assaults is a continuous challenge.

"It's a serious problem, it's ongoing and it's real," one senior government source said.

Western intelligence experts say that China has also targeted the US, Canada, Germany and Japan as part of its global intelligence-gathering effort.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday confirmed that foreign intelligence agencies had tried to hack into government computer networks, but said they had not compromised top-secret data banks

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11...00779fd2ac.html
 

[Beware: enemy attacks in cyberspace]

Beware: enemy attacks in cyberspace
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Published: September 3 2007 19:00 | Last updated: September 3 2007 19:00

Lieutenant General Robert Elder, senior Air Force officer for cyberspace issues, recently joked that North Korea “must only have one laptop” to make the more serious point that every potential adversary – except Pyongyang – routinely scans US computer networks.

North Korea may be impotent in cyberspace, but its neighbour is not. The Chinese military sent a shiver down the Pentagon’s spine in June by successfully hacking into an unclassified network used by the top policy advisers to Robert Gates, the defence secretary.

While the People’s Liberation Army has been probing Pentagon networks hund­reds of times a day for the past few years, the US is more alarmed at the growing frequency and sophistication of the attacks.

The Pentagon spent several months deflecting the recent onslaught before the PLA penetrated its system, which was shut down for more than a week for diagnosis.

While officials are concerned that it downloaded information, they are more concerned about the strategic ramifications.

“The PLA has demonstrated the ability to conduct attacks that disable our system . . . and the ability in a conflict situation to re-enter and disrupt on a very large scale,” said a former official, who added that the PLA has also penetrated the networks of US defence companies and think-tanks.

One senior US official said there was “no doubt” that China was now monitoring email traffic on unclassified government networks.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a89c1c88-5a38-11...00779fd2ac.html
 

[Analysis: China launches People's Information War]

Analysis: China launches People's Information War
HONG KONG, Sep. 14
ANDREI CHANG

Column: Military Might

Last week, the computer systems of the defense ministries of Britain and Germany and the U.S. Department of Defense were purportedly attacked by Chinese military hackers. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has resolutely denied such reports.

    Nonetheless, in the past five years, whenever tensions have been heightened in China's relations with the United States, Japan or Taiwan, the Web sites of the U.S., Japanese and Taiwanese defense ministries and foreign ministries have been attacked by Chinese hackers. These attacks could be an important means for the Chinese to steal military information by penetrating the military computer systems of these countries.

    A careful look at articles and seminars on the topic of "information warfare" from within the People's Liberation Army reveals that the PLA is now placing high priority on this type of computer warfare. A top-level information warfare command has been established under the Fourth Department of the PLA General Staff Headquarters.

    At previous conferences and seminars on this subject, Chinese military experts have put forward the concept that information warfare should include a peacetime "information struggle" in the political, diplomatic, financial, cultural and economic areas. At one such conference, the Fourth Department of the PLA raised the idea of establishing the information warfare leadership group at the top level of the Chinese military.

    The PLA is also carefully researching U.S. military strategies in this field. Most textbooks on computer warfare used by the U.S. military have been translated into the Chinese language, including "FM100-6 Information Operations" and "JP-3 13 Joint Doctrine for Information Operations" compiled by the Pentagon. Meanwhile, the PLA has also published two textbooks on information operations. At the level of research institutes, the PLA has established two centers for information operations.

    Experts from the 81178 Unit of the PLA believe that a future information war will require combined offensive and defensive tactics. Their offensive tactics include electronic attacks, network attacks and military deception; defensive tactics include information counterattacks, information protection and recovery. This yields insight into how the Chinese military views the relationship between military deception and network attacks

http://www.upiasiaonline.com/security/2007...nformation_war/

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INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF INFORMATION WARFARE

"Communications without intelligence is noise; intelligence
without communications is irrelevant."
Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC

". . . attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence.
Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind.
In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte

Information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information
and information systems to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy, an
adversary's information, information-based processes, information
systems, and computer-based networks while protecting one's own.
Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military,
political or business adversaries.
-- Dr. Ivan Goldberg

http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html

[information warfare]

SCIENCE NEWS
September 18, 2007

China's Cyber Attacks Signal New Battlefield Online

Although a cyber war has yet to be declared, there have been plenty of online skirmishes
By Larry Greenemeier

The uproar over claims that the People's Republic of China launched a series of network-based cyber attacks earlier this month against the U.K., France, Germany, and the U.S. has died down. But few expect China to back off efforts to gain the upper hand in the battle of bits and bytes. China's own stated military goals include improving the country's ability to wage information warfare.

The most recent cyber attacks against the U.S. stand out because they were traced back to the Chinese government. "Normally it is not possible to attribute the source of an attack, because source addresses can be spoofed," says Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute in Bethesda, Md., which trains and certifies technology workers in cyber security. In China's case, though, analysts tracked the cyber assaults to 20 computer workstations in China's Guangdong province, Paller says.

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RED ALERT:  China's stated military goals include improving the country's ability to wage information warfare.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleId...0D&chanId=sa003

U.S. Air Force sets up Command to defend the cyberspace

New York. Cyber war! Forget the traditional wars: cyberspace is the new battleground of the 21st century. As the Pentagon is trying to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan, it is also getting ready for this new kind of war. On Tuesday September 18, the U.S. Air Force set up a provisional Cyber Command at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

On Tuesday September 18 2007, the U.S. Air Force set up a provisional Cyber Command at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
Its goal will be to protect the U.S. cyberspace against hacker attacks.
The move comes amid concerns over a wave of hacker attacks from China.

http://en.tpinews.com/2007/09/19/us-air-fo...cyberspace.html


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Oh Good - now I can sleep at night!

Now is the time to fund the Military!!!

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Two indicted on IC economic espionage

Mark LaPedus  
EE Times
(09/27/2007 2:16 AM EDT)  

TOKYO — Two men were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit economic espionage and to steal trade secrets at NetLogic Microsystems Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to officials.

A federal grand jury in San Jose returned a superseding indictment against Lan Lee, a.k.a Lan Li, of Palo Alto, and Yuefei Ge, of San Jose. Lee, an American Citizen, and Ge, a Chinese national, had been released on the original indictment on $300,000 bonds.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArtic...cleID=202102178

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OH come on now! Chinese nationals would never do such a thing!
China is our bestest trading partner.  This is blasphemy! LOL.
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[Embryo selection gets even more interesting when we consider how a nation such as China might use it]

Read the cyber attacks from above, and then picture this:

A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year
By James D. Miller : BIO| 02 Oct 2007

Humankind may be changed radically by the recently developed technique allowing the safe gathering of thousands of immature eggs from a woman's ovarian tissue. This technique combined with cheap DNA sequencing and embryo selection will soon allow parents to multiply their newborn children's intellectual potential.

Some parents already use embryo selection to avoid conceiving children genetically predisposed to certain diseases. Here is how such embryo selection works. Let's say that a naturally conceived child of a certain couple has a 25% chance of being born with a fatal genetic disease. Rather than naturally conceiving a child, however, this couple might go to a fertility clinic. The clinic would remove, say, seven eggs from the woman and fertilize them with sperm from her husband. These fertilized eggs would become embryos. An embryo contains the full DNA of the child it could become. The clinic could therefore check each embryo to determine if it has the gene combination that would result in the fatal disease. The clinic would then destroy the embryos that have the fatal genes and implant one of the surviving embryos into the woman, insuring that the woman would not give birth to a child with the fatal genetic condition.

Now imagine how embryo selection will take place in the near future. By some predictions, within five years the cost of sequencing DNA will be "affordable enough that personal genomics will be integrated into routine clinical care." Once millions of people have their DNA sequenced researchers may quickly determine which combination of genes gives people the best chance of having a high IQ. Parents using embryo selection could, therefore, screen their embryos and pick the one with the greatest intellectual potential.

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Embryo selection gets even more interesting when we consider how a nation such as China might use it. Imagine that in ten years China forces all its college students to get genetic tests. Students with intelligence genes in the top 1% of the top 1% of humankind are then forced to donate sperm or eggs. China then uses the sperm and eggs to create a billion embryos each year. The genetic intellectual potential of all these embryos is checked. Those in the top 10,000 are implanted into women. Each of these embryos has the intellectual potential to be in the top one-billionth of humankind. Now because of environmental factors many of these embryos won't turn into intellectual titans. But let's say that one in ten does. This means that each year 1,000 people with the scientific ability of Einstein will be born. By 2035 they will become adults and start doing scientific research. I imagine these Einsteins will be rather helpful to China's economy and military.

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092507D

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GOP urges probe in China firm deal
By Bill Gertz
October 4, 2007

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday called for a Treasury Department probe into whether Pentagon computer networks will be compromised by the merger of a U.S. network-equipment maker and a Chinese firm with links to Beijing's military.

Senior Pentagon officials, meanwhile, are investigating the security aspects of the announced plan for China's Huawei Technologies and the investment firm Bain Capital Partners to buy 3Com, which makes equipment used by the Pentagon to block computer hackers, including those from the Chinese military.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.d.../110040081/1001

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Oh, my.  Access to both SW and HW
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[but also can trigger nuclear detonations]

Oct 12, 2007 5:28
US government says more warfare technology being smuggled to China, Iran


Missile technology, fighter jet parts, night vision goggles and other US wartime equipment increasingly are being illegally smuggled to potential adversaries, such as China and Iran, the federal government said.

Last week, two men were arrested for allegedly trying to sell parts over the Internet for F-4 and F-14 fighter jets - which are only flown by Iran. The week before, two engineers were indicted on charges of stealing computer chip designs intended for the Chinese military.

Officials acknowledged Thursday that some smuggled equipment might be used for peaceful purposes, such as spark gaps that are used in medical machines to break up kidney stones but also can trigger nuclear detonations. Government lawyers and investigators described a growing number of unauthorized exports that could be dangerous if they end up in the hands of terrorists or hostile nations.

"The concept of terrorists, criminals or rogue nations obtaining weapons and other restricted technology is chilling," said Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, who oversees illegal export investigations as head of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull

[No Flinching From Recalls as China’s Exports Soar]

No Flinching From Recalls as China’s Exports Soar
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: October 13, 2007

SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 — Despite a wave of high-profile recalls, and growing scrutiny of the quality and safety of Chinese goods, China’s export boom continues, according to newly released statistics from both independent analysts and the government in Beijing.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/business...=rssnyt&emc=rss

China behind daily internet attacks on Germany
"Chinese cyber war" looking to bridge corporate and scientific gap

Matt Chapman, vnunet.com 23 Oct 2007

China is conducting almost daily spying attacks on businesses and government agencies in Germany, according to one of the country's intelligence officers.

Hans Elmar Remberg, vice president of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told a Berlin conference on industrial espionage that his country was involved in "the Chinese cyber war".

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201763/...-daily-internet