Yesterday Businessweek posted a fascinating and lengthy report titled Network Security Breaches Plague NASA. This part will sound familiar to many readers.
By early 1999 the volume of intrusions had grown so worrisome that Thomas J. Talleur, the most senior investigator specializing in cyber-security in the Inspector General's office at NASA, wrote a detailed "network intrusion threat advisory..."
Talleur, now 59, retired in December 1999, frustrated that his warnings weren't taken more seriously. Five months after his advisory was circulated internally, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, released a public report reiterating in general terms Talleur's concerns about NASA security. But little changed, he says in an interview. "There were so many intrusions and hackers taking things we had on servers, I felt like the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike," he explains, sitting on the porch of his home near Savannah, Ga. On whether other countries are behind the intrusions, he says: "State-sponsored? God, it's been state-sponsored for 15 years!"
The article mentions China and the Russians.
Speaking of China, yesterday's story coincides with a press release on the Annual Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission titled U.S. – China commission cites Chinese cyber attacks, authoritarian rule, and trade violations as impediments to U.S. economic and national security interests.
Richard Bejtlich is teaching new classes in DC and Europe in 2009. Register by 1 Jan and 1 Feb, respectively, for the best rates.
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar