Chinese Hackers Carry Out Most Attacks on U.S. Computers, Congr...

Chinese government and freelance hackers are the primary culprits behind as many as several hundred daily attacks against U.S. government, electric-utility and financial computer networks, a senior congressman ...

[Redneck Haven]

When will the day come when we turn on our lights and they don't come on? When will all of our bank accounts beong to someone else? When will our Department of Defense be defenseless?

[Mousy]

Wow they are pissed.

[Redneck Haven]

Who? Our government or the Chinese?

[Mousy]

Redneck Haven wrote:

Who? Our government or the Chinese?

The Chinese are pissed at the US, so they're using hackers to destroy the US computers or something like that.

[Redneck Haven]

They're also not happy with Pelosi's Porkbarrel stimulous crap. It devalues our currency and China's.

[Summit Avenue]

Redneck Haven wrote:

When will the day come when we turn on our lights and they don't come on? When will all of our bank accounts beong to someone else? When will our Department of Defense be defenseless?

Wowser! Those are sobering thoughts, as the old saying goes. Not being deeply into computer security, but I've got Mozilla Firefox. Works great. Why the heck can't the feds have some superduper way of isolating and killing hackers then?

[Redneck Haven]

Summit Avenue wrote:

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Wowser! Those are sobering thoughts, as the old saying goes. Not being deeply into computer security, but I've got Mozilla Firefox. Works great. Why the heck can't the feds have some superduper way of isolating and killing hackers then?

A very good question.They only need Rose.We all need Rose.I owe it all to Rose.

[Liberty]

But hey they're not terrorists.
Our Vets are, as well as millions
of Americans who fall into the Messiah's
group of non-followers.

[Ima_ listed2]

Liberty wrote:

But hey they're not terrorists.
Our Vets are, as well as millions
of Americans who fall into the Messiah's
group of non-followers.

LMAO! You might as well pack your bags, don't cha know the word "terrorist" is no longer PC with the new administration? Plus, it is obvious from the Assessment that "thinking" is greatly frowned upon IF you can not Messiah agree when you "think" :)

Ima Proud to be on the list

[uhh]

so how do we know its actually the chinese government and not other attackers using proxy servers? Why is it that at my company I see 979743597034 hits a day in IPFW logs on our FreeBSD servers and I never really worry about it. Have not had any servers compromised in years. Many hits come from Chinese and Russian ip addresses. Usually see nessus and nmap scans along with ssh and ftp brute force attempts. A small IPFW script provides pretty good protection against this type of attacks. Open source software is constantly scrutinized by everyone in the world who wants to scrutinize. If there were some hole like a buffer overflow allowing remote access or priveledge escalation we'd know it..Or soon find out. The government knows all of this. They do not have the man power..nobody wants to be a top level security guy making what an entry level microsoft system engineer makes.

[Capt Kirk]

uhh wrote:

so how do we know its actually the chinese government and not other attackers using proxy servers? Why is it that at my company I see 979743597034 hits a day in IPFW logs on our FreeBSD servers and I never really worry about it....

Really! You actually get over 979 BILLION hits a day? That's over 11 Million hits per second.

[big farter]

I just ripped the biggest fart ever