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rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by ‘foreign entity’

Newsweek is reporting that the computer systems of the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain were compromised in a “sophisticated cyberattack” by an unknown “foreign entity.”

At Obama headquarters, what was originally believed to be a virus planted in a phishing attack turned out to something more ominous. After an investigation, the FBI and Secret Service issued a dire warning:

* You have a problem way bigger than what you understand,” an agent told Obama’s team. “You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system.”

Shocked

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I got 2 adobe flash updates lately, I hope I wasn't attacked. This is bigger than people think, its like they're at cyber war with us. Here's more:

ChannelWeb - Obama, McCain Web Sites Hit By Foreign Hackers - link contained in the body of the e-mail

The report comes just two days after hackers launched a global organized spam campaign exploiting Obama's Presidential victory Tuesday. Throughout the malicious spam campaign, first detected Nov. 5, attackers sent copious amounts of spam to millions of computers around the world that purported to be videos featuring Obama's acceptance speech. However, when users clicked on the link contained in the body of the e-mail message, they were prompted to download what they thought was the latest version of Adobe (NSDQ:ADBE) Flash Player. As they clicked on the link, their computer systems became infected with a Trojan that silently recorded valuable information from their systems and subsequently sent it to foreign servers.

http://www.crn.com/security/212001297

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Report: White House e-mail system attacked - CNET News

According to a story by the Financial Times on Friday, U.S. officials have confirmed that the White House e-mail archives were attacked several times in recent months. The report says the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, a new unit established in 2007 to tackle cybersecurity, detected the attacks on the White House, and also traced the attacks back to servers based in China.

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Chinese hackers, washingtonpost

Sources told the paper that the hackers were likely working for the Chinese government because of "their targeted nature." American officials declined to comment for the record on the reports, as did Chinese officials who in the past have called such accusations reminiscent of "Cold War-era thinking."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/ two_high-profile_incidents_of.html?nav=rss_blog

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

The Unreported War

China, unlike other nations hostile to America (North Korea, Cuba, Iran), has a large and growing Internet presence. China has thousands of skilled Internet programmers, and has admitted it is putting together military units for developing and using cyberweapons. So the next time there are tensions between the United States and China, there will be an outbreak of nasty, and hard to trace, Cyber War attacks on the United States......

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What's behind this are several dozen gangs that undertake large scale criminal operations on the Internet. Most people see the results in the form of spam email (over 70 percent of all email is spam) and operations that secretly take over personal and business PCs, so these computers can secretly transmit spam, or huge quantities of bogus messages that shut down targeted web sites (DDOS, or distributed denial or service attacks). The gangs also specialize on finding all manner of secret, or sensitive, information, and selling it. Intelligence agencies are often eager buyers.

It appears that China and Russia, or at least their security services, have made deals with some of the gangs. It works like this. If the secret police want some Internet based spying done, or a DDOS attack unleashed on someone, the gangs will do it, or help government Cyber War organizations do so. In return, the gangs have a safe haven........

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20081106.aspx

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=cyberwar&ie=UTF-8

Cyberwar between Sunnis and Shi'ites
Heise Online, Germany - Oct 16, 2008
A cyberwar is raging between Sunni and Shi'ite hackers. The Arab television transmitter Al-Arabiya reports that some 1200 web sites have been targeted by ...

IRAN: Hamas office declares cyber-war on Israel
Los Angeles Times, CA - Oct 25, 2008
The Tehran office of a Palestinian political group has announced it is offering cash prizes for any intrepid computer whiz who hacks into a "Zionist" ...

Initiatives in Place to Fight Cyberwar
istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR - Oct 19, 2008
Although the cyberwar threat presents a clear danger, there is no reason to press the panic button just yet. The country has taken many initiatives to ...
Collaboration, Info Sharing Make Good Defence istockAnalyst.com (press release)
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Arabian Nightmare
Strategy Page - 23 hours ago
Growing hostility between Arab Sunni and Iranian Shia religious zealots has resulted in a Cyber War. Last month, Sunni hackers defaced hundreds of web sites ...

Don’t waste funds preparing for cyberwars
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Oct 31, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: The billions of dollars spent on researching cyberwarfare can be put to better use because cyberwar is never going to be as effective as ...

Another reason to be paranoid online Malaysia Star
Internet kiosks can be hacked Malaysia Star
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Cyberwar on al-Quaeda, Sunni and Shiite sites
ZDNet Blogs - Oct 19, 2008
Is cyberwar coming to the war on terrorism? Two apparently unrelated developments seem to indicate so. The Washington Post reports that four out of ...

A Sunni-Shiite battle of the website hackers
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Oct 21, 2008
That supports the view of some observers that the Sunni-Shiite cyberwar is being orchestrated to an extent. "There's no way to walk the cat back, ...

Russia not responsible for cyber war on Georgia
IT Examiner, India - Oct 17, 2008
By Nick Farrell @ Friday, October 17, 2008 10:05 AM Security experts have cleared the Russian government of direct involvement in cyber attacks on Georgia. ...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=cyberwar&ie=UTF-8

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

The Chinese military last year hacked into the Pentagon system serving Robert Gates, the defence secretary, stealing information from an unclassified network in the most serious breach of the military's computer network.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3b4001e2-ac6f-11dd-bf71-000077b07658.html