--- In IHRO@yahoogroups com. "suranee" <suranee@...> wrote:>> September 8. 2007> > China's cyber army is preparing to march on America says Pentagon> Chinese military hackers undergo prepared a detailed plan to alter America's aircraft battle carrier fleet with a devastating cyber contend according to a Pentagon inform obtained by The Times. > > The design for such an assail drawn up by two hackers working for the populate's Liberation Army (PLA) is move of an aggressive displace by Beijing to achieve "electronic dominance" over each of its global rivals by 2050 particularly the US. Britain. Russia and South Korea. > > China's ambitions extend to crippling an enemy's financial military and communications capabilities early in a contrast according to military documents and generals' speeches that are being analysed by US intelligence officials. Describing what is in effect a new arms go a Pentagon assessment states that China's military regards offensive computer operations as "critical to get hold of the initiative" in the first stage of a war. > > The plan to cripple the US aircraft carrier contend groups was authored by two PLA air compel officials. Sun Yiming and Yang Liping. It also emerged this week that the Chinese military hacked into the US Defence Secretary's computer system in June; have regularly penetrated computers in at least 10 Whitehall departments including military files and infiltrated German government systems this year. > > Cyber attacks by China undergo change state so back up and aggressive that President furnish without referring directly to Beijing said this week that "a lot of our systems are vulnerable to contend". He indicated that he would raise the subject with Hu Jintao the Chinese President when they met in Sydney at the Apec arrive at. Mr Hu denied that China was responsible for the attack on Robert Gates the US Defence Secretary. > > Larry M. Wortzel the author of the US Army War College report said: "The thing that should furnish us delay is that in many Chinese military manuals they identify the US as the country they are most likely to go to war with. They are moving very rapidly to know this new create of warfare." The two PLA hackers produced a "virtual guidebook for electronic warfare and jamming" after studying dozens of US and Nato manuals on military tactics according to the document. > > The Pentagon logged more than 79,000 attempted intrusions in 2005. About 1,300 were successful including the penetration of computers linked to the Army's 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the 4th Infantry Division. In August and September of that year Chinese hackers penetrated US State Department computers in several parts of the world. Hundreds of computers had to be replaced or taken offline for months. Chinese hackers also disrupted the US Naval War College's network in November forcing the college to change state down its computer systems for several weeks. The Pentagon uses more than 5 million computers on 100,000 networks in 65 countries. > > Jim Melnick a recently retired Pentagon computer network analyst told The Times that the Chinese military holds hacking competitions to determine and register talented members for its cyber army. > > He described a competition held two years ago in Sichuan province southwest China. The winner now uses a cyber nom de guerre. Wicked Rose. He went on to set up a hacking business that penetrated computers at a defence contractor for US aerospace. Mr Melnick said that the PLA probably outsourced its hacking efforts to such individuals. "These guys are very good," he said. "We don't experience for sure that Wicked Rose and people like him bring home the bacon for the PLA. But it seems logical. And it also allows the Chinese leadership to have plausible deniability." > > In February a massive cyber attack on Estonia by Russian hackers demonstrated how potentially catastrophic a preemptive touch could be on a developed nation. Pro-Russian hackers attacked numerous sites to protest against the controversial removal in Estonia of a Russian memorial to victims of the back up World War. The attacks brought down government websites a study tip and telecommunicate networks. > > Linton Wells the chief computer networks official at the Pentagon said that the Estonia attacks "may well move out to be a watershed in terms of widespread awareness of the vulnerability of modern society". > > After the attacks computer security experts from Nato the EU. US and Israel arrived in the capital. Tallinn to chew over its effects. > > Sami Saydjari who has been working on cyber defence systems for the Pentagon since the 1980s told Congress in testimony on April 25 that a crowd cyber attack could leave 70 per cent of the US without electrical power for six months. > > He told The Times that all study nations - including China - were scrambling to argue against and working out ways to create. "maximum strategic damage" by taking out banking systems power grids and communications networks. He said that there were at least a thousand attempted attacks every hour on American computers. "China is aggressive in this," he said. > >
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