Chinese stealing lots of Navy sensitive data

[Peter1469]

Chinese stealing lots of Navy sensitive data

This is really an old issue that the public is now only coming to learn about. We need to protect our supply chain- many if not most Chinese companies are fronts for intelligence gathering and industrial espionage.

The Navy and its industry partners are “under cyber siege” by Chinese hackers and others who have stolen national security secrets in recent years, exploiting critical weaknesses that threaten the U.S.’s standing as the world’s top military power, an internal Navy review concluded.

The assessment, delivered to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer last week and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, depicts a branch of the armed forces under relentless cyberattack by foreign adversaries and struggling in its response to...

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[MMC]

Top Navy Admiral Warns of Cyber Attacks Against Brass …..


U.S. Navy captains and admirals nominated for higher ranks are vulnerable to cyber attackers — and that’s why the service stopped publicly announcing their promotions last year, the chief of naval operations said Wednesday.


Adm. John Richardson spoke a week after an internal Navy review warned that the service and its suppliers are “under cyber siege.”


“Our competitors are focused prejudicially on those technologies where they see that they’re at a disadvantage and undersea is one where where I think that we would definitely have an advantage and many other maritime types of capabilities,” Richardson said of the new assessment at a press conference on the sidelines of a McAleese and Associates/Credit Suisse conference in Washington. “We shouldn’t be surprised, I suppose, that that’s a target.”



The new cyber assessment blames Navy officials for failing to anticipate that adversaries would attack defense companies and suppliers, the Wall Street Journal reported. Richardson said the Navy needs to “move this forward with a sense or urgency” to address cybersecurity issues.


“One way or another, we’re going to have to get at this as a team,” he said. “It’s just the nature of cyber. Everybody’s got to be kind of at the same level of capability because it only takes one or two of a capability because it only takes one or two vulnerabilities and the enemy can be inside the network and do some serious damage.....snip~


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Plus we know the Chinese hacked into the OPM at State. Naturally we will be hearing about how we get hacked. But wont hear anything on what we are doing to China. Or how successful we are at catching them or defending against them.


You would think since we created the internet. We would have some extreme advantages over our enemies when it comes to cyber war.

[Admiral Ackbar]

I am amazed that the people we put in charge of our defense and educate at places like Annapolis and West Point..fail to see the possibilities of our enemies spying on our defense contractors.