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Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« on: May 03, 2012, 12:25:02 pm »
Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military's head of cyber-security has revealed.

Major General Jonathan Shaw told the Guardian the number of successful attacks was hard to quantify but they had added urgency to efforts to beef up protection around the MoD's networks.

"The number of serious incidents is quite small, but it is there," he said. "And those are the ones we know about. The likelihood is there are problems in there we don't know about."

Government computer systems come under daily attack, but though Shaw would not say how or by whom, this is the first admission that the MoD's own systems have been breached.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/03/hackers-breached-secret-mod-systems

Almost sounds like it could of been another country hiring hackers since they went after their top secret files.  And since anonymous is quiet about this, I doubt it was them.
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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2012, 01:05:08 pm »
I'm going to bet on China.

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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 02:20:46 pm »
Yeah, I'm going to agree with Smurfette Principle on this one.  Different countries' militaries engage in cyberwarfare all the time, and China is one of the biggest players in that field.
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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2012, 07:22:04 pm »
I think the main problem is that it came out into the open.

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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2012, 08:45:09 am »
Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military's head of cyber-security has revealed.

Major General Jonathan Shaw told the Guardian the number of successful attacks was hard to quantify but they had added urgency to efforts to beef up protection around the MoD's networks.

"The number of serious incidents is quite small, but it is there," he said. "And those are the ones we know about. The likelihood is there are problems in there we don't know about."

Government computer systems come under daily attack, but though Shaw would not say how or by whom, this is the first admission that the MoD's own systems have been breached.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/03/hackers-breached-secret-mod-systems

Almost sounds like it could of been another country hiring hackers since they went after their top secret files.  And since anonymous is quiet about this, I doubt it was them.
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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2012, 09:18:56 am »
Sounds like some great defense the Ministry of Defense has. Any space left on the "It's China" bandwagon?

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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2012, 01:01:29 pm »
Looks like someone didn't get the Virus Alert.

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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2012, 06:09:08 pm »
I blame the Illuminati...

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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2012, 10:08:55 pm »
I blame the Illuminati...

...collaborating with China

That is such fucking bullshit. This is clearly a false-flag attack perpetuated by Mossad and the upper echelons of the CIA to scare Americans into giving up their right to privacy on the internet. Now someone is going to say that all computers need "monitoring software" so that they can "catch the terrorists," and everyone's just going to accept it because their brains have been stunted by the fluoride and pharmaceutical drugs that the Cult of the "Medical Industry" keeps shoving down our throats.
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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2012, 11:32:02 pm »
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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2012, 02:52:06 am »
Countries spy on each other and hack each other's systems all the time.  A big part of the modern arms race is in cyberspace.

I suppose this would be a good place to mention that allies spy on each other as much as hostile states do.  So for all we know, this could have been NSA.
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Re: Hackers break into Ministry of Defence
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2012, 11:41:41 am »
I blame the Illuminati...

...collaborating with China

That is such fucking bullshit. This is clearly a false-flag attack perpetuated by Mossad and the upper echelons of the CIA to scare Americans into giving up their right to privacy on the internet. Now someone is going to say that all computers need "monitoring software" so that they can "catch the terrorists," and everyone's just going to accept it because their brains have been stunted by the fluoride and pharmaceutical drugs that the Cult of the "Medical Industry" keeps shoving down our throats.

You forgot to work in "Big Pharma".

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