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Please raise my taxes to provide scholarships for computer programmers.
Interesting. If you really wanted to provide scholarships I'm sure you don't need to funnel it through the govt.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20110211/tc_nf/77307
Barry Levine, newsfactor.com Barry Levine, newsfactor.com – 46 mins ago
In another time, Night Dragon could have been the name of a Chinese pirate ship. In the early 21st century, it's the name that security firm McAfee has given to a group of hackers from that country who have penetrated energy companies' networks and confiscated internal do ents for at least two years, and possibly up to four.
On Friday, McAfee Vice President Dmitri Alperovitch described the attacks to news media as "unsophisticated," but noted that they were still effective in stealing a wide variety of do ents over a sustained period of time. He added that they were "incredibly sloppy, made mistakes, and left lots of evidence."
Night Dragon's Techniques
According to Alperovitch, the Night Dragon hackers attacked at least five Western oil, gas and petrochemical companies, although he didn't provide names. Some are clients of McAfee, which is how the company became involved.
In a report on the attacks released Thursday, McAfee said they involved "social engineering, spear-phishing attacks, exploitation of Microsoft Windows operating system vulnerabilities, Microsoft Active Directory compromises, and the use of remote administration tools."
Basic activities of the hackers, the report said, included compromising company extranet web servers through SQL-injection techniques that allowed remote command execution. Commonly available hacker tools were uploaded to compromised servers, providing access into the company's intranet, and then to internal desktops and servers. Additional usernames and passwords were obtained, using "password-cracking and pass-the-hash tools."
Compromised web servers were used as "command and control" servers, from which the attackers disabled Microsoft Internet Explorer proxy settings -- thus acquiring direct communication from infected machines to the Internet.
SCADA Systems
The purloined information included contracts, data about field operations, and information about monitoring systems. The monitoring operations were managed by supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which were also the target of the infamous Stuxnet worm that may have disrupted Iran's uranium-enrichment effort. However, disruption doesn't seem to have been the objective, but corporate espionage was.
The country of origin was deduced because the hackers used Chinese-language software tools, by originating IP addresses from the Chinese mainland, and because the attacks took place during business hours -- Beijing time.
McAfee noted that attacks on Google and WikiLeaks do ent disclosures, both in 2010, "have highlighted the fact that external and internal threats are nearly impossible to prevent." In light of that, the company said, it decided to share the Night Dragon attacks with the public.
McAfee said these kinds of sustained attacks have now "moved beyond the defense industrial base, government and military computers to include global corporate and commercial targets." Night Dragon focused on the energy sector, but, the report said, the same techniques can be used on any industry, and the target has increasingly become intellectual property.
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I do not worry about China's military.
It's computer hackers on the other hand, cause me some grave concern, especially when it is becoming so obvious that their government is doing a lot of this.
Think about the implications for companies doing business in China, where many companies have partial government ownership.
This is the rise of commercial interest information warfare.
Please raise my taxes to provide scholarships for computer programmers.
Please raise my taxes to provide scholarships for computer programmers.
Interesting. If you really wanted to provide scholarships I'm sure you don't need to funnel it through the govt.
Every UCA company doing business in China is having every single byte of its communications, voice and data, sucked into the Chinese govt databases.
The FBI and CIA do it to Americans without warrant "to protect America", why wouldn't the Chinese do it?
That's what you get using a ty product like Windows.
No I do not.
But I can only do so much, and the problem is much bigger than I can address.
That is why we have governments to solve common problems that are larger than the abilities of any one person to overcome.
Yes, I think your taxes should be raised for this, too. Suck it up.
I say this a lot in my life.
I never hate on the person/people making money, I hate on the people paying them.
For instance, Justin Bieber is an ok dude, IMO. Hes young, rich, famous and doesnt even really pretend to care about "his music". There is no reason to hate him because I would trade places with him in a ing heartbeat.
But his fans and the people who line his pockets making him rich and famous? Hate every last ing one of them.
Same with China. There is no reason to hate them. Theyre cheating, stealing and scheming their way into relevance right before everyone's eyes. Horse-whipping their population out of the 17th century along the way with no room for dissent.
But the people who enable this behavior? Hate every ing one of them.
You cant just about the older bully of the neighborhood behind his back, but tolerate his existence because its "better them than me", you need to catch him looking the other way with a tire iron and an explicit message of "Cease and desist, please."
Well I think I see other areas of concern. PBS does not have an East/West channel. Its tough for those without DVR.
Yes, I think your taxes should be raised for this, too. Suck it up
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