http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174242/Military_warns_of_increasingly_active_cyber_threat_from_China_ By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld March 26, 2010 On the same day that Google Inc. and the GoDaddy Group Inc. complained about China to a congressional committee, U.S. Navy Admiral Robert Willard appeared before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee with an even stronger warning about cyber-threats posed by China. Willard's comments about China received little press attention but were stronger than anything said by either company. "U.S. military and government networks and computer systems continue to be the target of intrusions that appear to have originated from within the PRC (People's Republic of China)," said Willard. He said that most of the intrusions are focused on acquiring data "but the skills being demonstrated would also apply to network attacks." Willard testified on the military's operations in its Pacific command, which he said "faces increasingly active and sophisticated threats to our information and computer infrastructure." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Mar 28 2010 - 23:09:58 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Sun Mar 28 2010 - 23:19:43 PDT