China hackers enter Navy computers, plant bug to extract sensitive data

[tomazyk]

Hackers have broken into sensitive naval computer systems in and around Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command, and planted bugs that relayed confidential data to IP addresses in China.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ch...e-data/968897/

Sources, however, confirmed that classified data had been leaked, and the breach had possibly occurred because of the use of pen drives that are prohibited in naval offices. The virus was found hidden in the pen drives that were being used to transfer data from standalone computers to othersystems, said a person familiar with the investigation.

... and I thought that everybody, who manages more than one computer, knows how to disable autorun ...

[funkydude]

Originally Posted by tomazyk

... and I thought that everybody, who manages more than one computer, knows how to disable autorun ...

The US military establishments appear to have no clue whatsoever.

[Carver]

Originally Posted by funkydude

The US military establishments appear to have no clue whatsoever.

I heard this a while ago when they started extracting information from letters from solders

[mirimir]

Originally Posted by funkydude

The US military establishments appear to have no clue whatsoever.

That's a bit harsh! They did let Brad bring CD-RW disks to work, however

[jackdiaz]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...yber-war-games

there's been some sort of breech or attack every month since the guardian article above. this month even had a couple besides this Navy one, right?

the thing US and China are calling 'war games' kinda looks like a cyber-war