• Four Corners: Hacked! - Exposing Chinese hacking against Australian Government and Defence
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[url]http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/05/27/3766576.htm[/url] [quote]While debate rages over Australia's border security, there's growing evidence that the greatest threat to Australia's national security potentially comes from foreign computer hackers. Few in government or business will admit the full extent of the break-ins, with one expert calling it a "dirty little secret". Next on Four Corners reporter Andrew Fowler reveals that hackers, working from locations overseas, have targeted key Federal Government departments and major corporations in Australia. Their intention is to steal national security secrets and vital business information. [/quote] I can't embed the video, and it's nearly 45 minutes long. For those who don't know, Four Corners is the Australia equivalent of the BBC show Panorama. It may/may not be viewable outside of Australia, sorry if it isn't. I found this worrying. It makes me think Ghost in the Shell's future of cyber espionage is a real and dangerous possibility. It also looks like ASIS (the Australian equivalent of the US's CIA or UK's SIS) won't be moving into their new offices
I dream that most of the world will collectively tell China to fuck off and gradually pull our businesses away from them until they stop this bullshit. No other country could conceivably have government hackers infiltrating other governments and foreign companies on a near constant basis and have no ramifications.
They can do it, because they have the numbers to actually overwhelm most of our defence network. Both ASIO and the DSD can't really do much about it, even having a 24 hour anti-hacking team overseeing all of the active network connections and hubs. It won't stop there though, knowing with the current fiscal situation and the inactivity of most public sector workers, anything that would actually help is far off.
[QUOTE=shutter_eye5;40802343]They can do it, because they have the numbers to actually overwhelm most of our defence network. Both ASIO and the DSD can't really do much about it, even having a 24 hour anti-hacking team overseeing all of the active network connections and hubs. It won't stop there though, knowing with the current fiscal situation and the inactivity of most public sector workers, anything that would actually help is far off.[/QUOTE] That's why they spent 15 minutes talking about offensive hacking as a solution to the hacks.
Whatcha' gonna do about it, whatcha' gonna do about it?
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