Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Chinese hackers reportedly accessed designs for advanced US weapons systems


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According to the Washington Post , which has seen a confidential section of a report prepared by the Defense Science Board for the Pentagon, the designs for more than two dozen advanced US weapons systems were accessed by Chinese hackers. The public version of the report, titled "Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat," limited itself to detailing in increasingly alarming language the thread posed by lax cybersecurity. It argues that the "DoD is not prepared to defend against this threat" and that "with present capabilities and technology it is not possible to defend with confidence against the most sophisticated cyber attacks."

The confidential portion of the document is perhaps more alarming, as it contains a list of...

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