Posted on 10/01/2012 8:30:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bill Gertz has the grim news in the Washington Free Beacon:
Hackers linked to China's government broke into one of the U.S. government's most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.
One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing's most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks.
Disclosure of the cyber attack also comes amid heightened tensions in Asia, as the Pentagon moved two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups and Marine amphibious units near waters by Japan's Senkaku islands.
China and Japan-the United States' closest ally in Asia and a defense treaty partner-are locked in a heated maritime dispute over the Senkakus, which China claims as its territory.
U.S. officials familiar with reports of the White House hacking incident said it took place earlier this month and involved unidentified hackers, believed to have used computer servers in China, who accessed the computer network used by the White House Military Office (WHMO), the president's military office in charge of some of the government's most sensitive communications, including strategic nuclear commands. The office also arranges presidential communications and travel, and inter-government teleconferences involving senior policy and intelligence officials.
An Obama administration national security official said: "This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network."
Spear phishing is a cyber attack that uses disguised emails that seek to convince recipients of a specific organization to provide confidential information. Spear phishing in the past has been linked to China and other states with sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities. The official described the type of attack as "not infrequent" and said there were unspecified "mitigation measures in place."
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It is the Obama whitehut. Who says the Chinese needed to hack into anything and weren’t given the codes?
They need to maintain the facade in order to keep the half awake citizenry from joining the fully awake citizeny taking up arms.
I wonder how many open POA&Ms the network and system admins had open. Because that’s all that ever really matters to management.
Ans is Zero really concerned. He’s far too focused on golfing, campaigning and making Whoopi on The View.
Why are these computer on the Internet?
Just in time to pass the Cyber Security Bill.. Gee, WHAT.. A.. COINCIDENCE...
Send this link to everyone you know...make copies and hand it out on the street corners! Pass this on to your kids at school and let them pass this info on to others...in print and verbally.
We WILL HAVE TO BE THE TOWN CRIERS....EACH AND EVERY TIME A OBOZO TREANSONOUS INDISCRETION COMES UP, LET’S SEND THE INFO OUT IN PRINT TO EVERYONE WE KNOW, AND PASS IT ON VERBALLY AND TO THE KIDS IN OUR SCHOOLS....AND TELL THEM TO PASS IT ON...HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, EVERYWHERE!
We ARE THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND..THE TOWN CRIER.
LET’S GET ER’ DONE.
Ditto... Think about this folks..
Why isn’t this a Romney/ Ryan campaign add?
Why isn’t this a Romney/ Ryan campaign add?
I heard Ryan talking about it on Sean Hannity's radio show last week. He was pretty good. I think he'll continue will it.
It would be a mistake not to.
OMG. I haven’t read the thread yet—but the title scares me.
I wish we had an adult in the White House. And I wish there would be some sound media coverage of this.
Get ready to learn Chinese....I may not be alive to see it, but I worry for my children. And theirs.
Doesn’t matter if there was Unclassified information on that network, or Classified information, the gate to that network should never have been left open by someone in the White Hut to be open to the Chinese.
BTTT
Has anyone notified the Drudge Report about it ? Rush Limbaugh ? World Net Daily ? Fox News ?
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