Comments on: Black Cyber Ops on Rise

By: Robert Little

Robert Little — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:24:45 +0000

You mean, President Obama. It was under the previous administration (President Bush) that our DoD and various major corporate sites were hacked. Witness the just-announced test flight of the Chinese F-20 stealth fighter. It’s an apparent clone of the F-35. According to probably reliable reports, virtually every electrical grid in the US has been hacked, with back doors awaiting the order to crash them. At least our current president has addressed the issue. I do not know if the relative silence on the issue of cyber security from DC is a bad omen, or good, but I think I’ll look into a generator for my all-electrical house.

By: Oblat

Oblat — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:51 +0000

The whole cyberwar thing is winding down in Washington with even the governments own cyber-czar stating that there is no cyberwar and the whole thing is a really bad idea. All that is left are the lobbyists and consultants like Kevin still dreaming of hitting the big time by setting up a cyber-blackwater. Most wont be around in a year or two.

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:32:28 +0000

The issue is primarily legal–if it’s done under DoD then posse comitatus means it can’t do anything in CONUS without about six different kinds of permission, and so what do you do if the server you’re working with is in CONUS? Do you treat it as an attack on the homeland? That has some pretty serious political implications!

By: caveqat

caveqat — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:09:33 +0000

I would laugh at you, but I know your serious. Your solutions are bullshit, unless you can secure your networks. Every newbee knows that. You cannot secure your networks unless you restart the manufacturing and purchasing inside your homebase. Be you russian, german, korean or american. Check where the parts that you use came from. Every circuit there should have a marking of made in your country. Otherwise expect the others to have set in a back door. You can super encrypt all the noise you want, but if others made the circuit, there is a back door that is listening, after all the noise is canceled. your message is sent in the clear. No need to hack, just to gather.

By: 123borne

123borne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:19:00 +0000

I am not at all suprised. Obama is way behind on the cyber stuff from what i’m told.
We all need to start a new company as I bet a few of us here have our TS1 already/

123borne

By: William C.

William C. — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:13:09 +0000

We need to expand our cyber warfare capabilitites and such “black ops” will be an important concern, despite whatever you may think of such “covert” operations. Even rather technological backwards countries like North Korea are getting involved here.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:12:48 +0000

cyber warfare? what now militaries are solving international problems with some cyber bullying? haha what is the world coming to

By: lcdr_kent

lcdr_kent — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:54:40 +0000

The US can not even set a Cyber Command inside the DoD. I would ask google or others to work on this type of project, they know the most about ours & their weaknesses.

By: Erick

Erick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:02:50 +0000

You a sapper, Sapper?

By: Sapper

Sapper — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:03:32 +0000

I agree.

By: Propellerhead

Propellerhead — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:59:55 +0000

Intelligence will use any tools they can get. So very un-surprising. The more important part is the rise of organized criminal groups as major forces in this realm, with millions of zombies (and more importantly maybe network devices and route servers). The criminal groups already represent a very well funded, very mercenary force in this arena, many with more capability then most first world nations. They will happily sell a hack or attack to the highest bidder. Would not be surprising to see these very bad actors try to some large scale type of blackmail, or to make attacks to spur military action against a target for billions in pay. All nations should get VERY serious about hunting these types down.