The Wall St. Journal was also hacked into. Interesting that we make very little noise to upset the Chinese. Of course it could be that the billions in our debt gives them a lot of leverage to avoid much criticism. Obama has been strangely silent on their pirating intellectual rights, computer hacking and more openly supporting North Korea. Maybe China knows that if they dump all our debt on the markets it will spike up interest rates and play havoc with our economy. We are so screwed and we don’t even talk about it here and pretend it’s no big deal. They have us right where they want us, beholden to them.
The NYT attack, afaik, was with an email spear-phish attack which installs a RAT (remote access tool). The thermostat infiltration was used to hit a financial instituition (forget which) a couple years back.
All the time. Our forensics team recently had to deal with a Dutch bank’s compromised workstations in Germany. They determined that these compromised machines had been hit several months before…
Heh, we had joked that the days of wondering if the fridge light switched off once we closed the door was over. We could remote in and check the light switch. Then someone joked that a foreign power could cause a higher consumption of energy by remotely switching on everyone’s fridge light with the door closed!
Mickey 13 over 11 years ago
The Wall St. Journal was also hacked into. Interesting that we make very little noise to upset the Chinese. Of course it could be that the billions in our debt gives them a lot of leverage to avoid much criticism. Obama has been strangely silent on their pirating intellectual rights, computer hacking and more openly supporting North Korea. Maybe China knows that if they dump all our debt on the markets it will spike up interest rates and play havoc with our economy. We are so screwed and we don’t even talk about it here and pretend it’s no big deal. They have us right where they want us, beholden to them.
OmqR-IV.0 over 11 years ago
The NYT attack, afaik, was with an email spear-phish attack which installs a RAT (remote access tool). The thermostat infiltration was used to hit a financial instituition (forget which) a couple years back.
Chillbilly over 11 years ago
It’s believed that the hackers were hired by a billionaire Chinese bureaucrat’s family who was exposed by the Times.
OmqR-IV.0 over 11 years ago
All the time. Our forensics team recently had to deal with a Dutch bank’s compromised workstations in Germany. They determined that these compromised machines had been hit several months before…
OmqR-IV.0 over 11 years ago
Heh, we had joked that the days of wondering if the fridge light switched off once we closed the door was over. We could remote in and check the light switch. Then someone joked that a foreign power could cause a higher consumption of energy by remotely switching on everyone’s fridge light with the door closed!