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| Military powers 'using Internet to spy and plot digital attacks' |
| 2004-11-07 |
| The world's most advanced military powers are using the Internet to spy on their enemies and prepare digital attacks against rogue targets, a leading cyber security expert said yesterday. "When there's a major cyber incident it's very difficult to prove most of the time who did it," said Richard Clarke, former White House adviser on national security and cyber threats. "There are incidents, I think, where governments are involved, doing either reconnaissance or testing out concepts, probing for weaknesses." Clarke said he suspects Russia and China are the most pervasive users of Internet for intelligence-gathering on suspected enemy states and plotting ways to use the information for military purposes. "Maybe the US too," he told a security conference Clarke worked for the last three US presidents as a White House national security advisor. He resigned after the September 11, 2001 attacks on US and has been a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's anti-terror and Iraq campaigns. His latest comments come as network security experts report a growing sophistication of attacks on business and government websites, either knocking them offline for long periods or cracking their defences to steal trade secrets. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 "...using the Internet to spy on their enemies..." |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2004-11-07 6:58:24 PM |
| #11 tu3031---The MSM is running out of election stories, so they are sifting through the sludge pits, and who pops up? Ritter and Co. Even the MSM and dems are starting to realize that you can only whip a dead horse so much before it becomes just a mass of unrecognizable goo. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-11-07 4:46:17 PM |
| #10 Wow. The other day Diddler Ritter checks in, then today Blixie, and now Richard Clarke. Who's watching the Irrelevant Hall of Fame, Joe Wilson? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-11-07 3:26:47 PM |
| #9 "Net Force"(from Tom Clancy you heathens) |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-11-07 1:23:19 PM |
| #8 with miniaturization and nanotechnology advances, that fly that just came in the window could be a bug in more than one sense of the word ;-) just because you're paranoid doesn't mean somebody's not watching.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-07 8:39:59 AM |
| #7 Of course, in special cases, there's always the US mail, or that strange Christmas gift from the foreign aunt you didn't know you had... |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-11-07 8:39:31 AM |
| #6 On the other hand, if you want to expand the concept of a bug to include all forms of remote eavesdropping, there are the various SIGINT platforms, and the wide variety of RF intercept systems. There is cell phone eavesdropping, which I guess fits the description if you can turn on the cell phone remotely. There are also optical eavesdropping and collection systems, which most computer users are not aware of. |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-11-07 8:30:31 AM |
| #5 V4V: Beats me. :o) |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-11-07 8:19:38 AM |
| #4 Badanov: Like I said...with what other technology than internet-based technology can you plant a bug remotely? |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-11-07 8:02:09 AM |
| #3 Pretty obvious. With what other technology can you plant a bug remotely? Windows XP. ;o) Seriously, a number of technologies are available for internet spying on individuals and for sites. Keystroke loggers is a good one, but packet sniffers are good as well. Also any number of worms exploiting vulnerabilities. For atacks: Brute force attacks; spoofed data for http servers, injected SQL. A whole cavalcade of technologies that are net aware and ready to bring down the jihadi site nearest you. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-11-07 7:42:47 AM |
| #2 Speaking of Richard Clarke - isn't his 15 minutes up? What about Sandy Berger? Anything new on his pants-gate? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-07 7:37:36 AM |
| #1 Pretty obvious. With what other technology can you plant a bug remotely? |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-11-07 7:21:23 AM |