China is World’s Biggest Cyber Thief: U.S. Report
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U.S. intelligence officials called China the world’s biggest perpetrator of economic espionage in a report that says the theft of sensitive data in cyberspace is accelerating.
Hackers and illicit programmers in China and Russia are pursuing American technology and industrial secrets, jeopardizing an estimated $398 billion in U.S. research spending, according to the report released today by the National Counterintelligence Executive, the agency responsible for countering foreign spying on the U.S. government.
The report went beyond previous U.S. official assessments in blaming the two countries for stealing sensitive economic and commercial information. Areas cited as most targeted include pharmaceuticals, information-technology, military equipment and advanced materials and manufacturing processes.
“China and Russia view themselves as strategic competitors of the United States and are the most aggressive collectors of U.S. economic information and technology,” according to the findings. The report drew on 2009-2011 data from at least 13 agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The report emphasized the two countries’ use of cyberspace to conduct espionage against U.S. corporations, government agencies and universities. Storage of business records, research results, and economic data in digital form makes it possible for foreign hackers to “gather enormous quantities of information quickly and with little risk,” the report said.
‘Intolerable Level’
“The nations of China and Russia, through their intelligence services and through their corporations, are attacking our research and development,” Robert “Bear” Bryant, the U.S. National Counterintelligence Executive, said at a news conference unveiling the report. “If we build their economies on our information, I don’t think that’s right.”
Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, said last month that hacker attacks by China had reached an “intolerable level” and called on the U.S. and its allies to “confront Beijing.”
China’s “continued theft of sensitive economic information is a threat to our national security, hurts American businesses and workers, and causes incalculable harm” to the world economy, Rogers, a Michigan Republican, said in an e-mail today. “This once again underscores the need for America’s allies across Asia and Europe to join forces to pressure Beijing to end this illegal behavior.”
‘Onslaught’ of Intrusions
U.S. corporations and computer security specialists have reported an “onslaught” of network intrusions originating from Internet Protocol addresses in China, according to the findings. The report highlights the technical difficulties in determining whether such attacks were state-sponsored.
“China’s rapid development and prosperity are attributed to its sound national development strategy and the Chinese people’s hard work as well as the ever enhanced economic and trade cooperation with other countries beneficial to all,” Wang Baodong, a Chinese embassy spokesman, said in an e-mail. “We are opposed to willfully making unwarranted allegations against China as firmly as our opposition to any forms of unlawful cyberspace activities.”
A former senior U.S. intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because intelligence matters are classified, said in a telephone interview that China regards cyberspace as a free-fire zone where it can steal secrets and plant malware, sometimes embedded in computers and other equipment before it is sold to Western companies.
Cloud Computing Vulnerable
The $398 billion in spending on research and development occurred in 2008 by U.S. industry, government agencies, universities and nonprofits, according to National Science Foundation data cited by the report.
The pace of economic espionage will accelerate in the next several years, according to the report by the National Counterintelligence Executive, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Increased use of technologies such as smart phones and cloud computing, which lets users access data and applications over the Internet, creates vulnerabilities hackers can exploit, the report found.
The new report faults American companies for not taking the threat seriously enough.
Security Proposal Pending
“Only 5 percent of corporate chief financial officers are involved in network security matters, and only 13 percent of companies have a cross-functional cyber risk team that bridges the technical, financial, and other elements of a company, according to a 2010 study,” the authors wrote.
The Obama administration issued a cyber security proposal in May that would require companies to report data breaches, toughen penalties for computer crimes and direct the Homeland Security Department to work with banks, utilities and transportation operators to develop cyber-security plans.
A Republican House task force recommended last month boosting cyber security for the nation’s critical infrastructure through the use of voluntary industry standards, incentives and limited regulation.
from bloomberg
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as if the other countries dont steal....
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U.S is the biggest Arse : China Report
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Iran to expose data on US terror plots
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili will release a number of documents detailing US involvement in acts of terror against the Islamic Republic.Jalili is reportedly set to make the revelations on US terror moves against Iran on Friday, during a ceremony marking the takeover anniversary of the US embassy in Tehran by Iranian students in 1979.
The revelations will come a day after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei described the US as the great terrorist in the world.We possess one hundred pieces of irrefutable evidence that reveal the US role in directing terrorists for conducting acts of terror in Iran and the region, said Ayatollah Khamenei in an address to thousands of Iranian students on Wednesday.Ayatollah Khamenei added that Iran will bring shame to the US, advocates of terrorism and the so-called defenders of human rights through the publication of the evidence.In November 1979, less than a year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution that toppled a US-backed monarchy, Iranian university students calling themselves "students following the line of [the late] Imam [Khomeini]" seized the US embassy in Tehran, which they referred to as 'the den of spies.'The students justified the takeover by insisting that the compound had become a center of espionage that engaged in planning to overthrow the nascent Islamic Republic establishment in Iran.The students occupying the embassy later published documents proving that the compound was indeed engaged in schemes and measures to overthrow Iran's Islamic system. -
what about USA? world hero? fk them, they use toxic bomb and bomb that contain radiation during iraq war. those bombs were not allowed to use and banned. yet they wanna end the war fast so they chose to use that. all these news had never repored. if you wan more answers u cann google it. i found out this at mio news at a taiwan news discussion channel. those news was abt usa,how they att iraq ,what type of weapon they used and what they did.
.ppl who stay at those area that were heavily bomb most of them became handicape and new born baby also became handicape.
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USA is the terrorist. same goes to western countries. all they want was oil oil oil. they invade for oil not to free the country
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US as usual like to point fingers.
the pot calling the kettle black.
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Iran: US chief suspect of global terror
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili exposes documents on US acts of terror during his speech for a gathering of hundreds of thousands of Iranians in the capital city of Tehran, November 4, 2011.Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili has shown two documents pointing to US involvement in acts of terror, insisting that Washington is the chief perpetrator of terror across the globe utilizing terrorism as a tool to achieve its policy objectives, Press TV reports.
Jalili, who was addressing a massive crowd of people rallying in Tehran to commemorate the 1979 anniversary of takeover of the US embassy by Iranian students, displayed two sets of documents, which he said implicated the American government for having ties with known terror groups and elements.
Iran has irrefutable evidence that expose the official involvement of the United States government in anti-Iran planning and the dispatching of elements to conduct acts of sabotage and terror in Iran and other regional countries, said the senior Iranian official.
The documents show how Washington has been directing and funding terrorist rings to achieve its regional objectives, the top security official noted.
Jalili emphasized that based on the existing evidence, Tehran reserves the right to bring legal cases against the US in both Iranian and international courts of law.
He went on to say that Iran will submit the documents to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for circulation among member states at the United Nations.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Jalili pointed to the spreading tide of anti-capitalism movement across America and said that US capitalism was principally set up based on terrorism.
The Iranian official also noted that the US national interests have been held hostage to the interests of the greedy one percent of its population and top American leaders that have spent billions of dollars on wars. He called on Washington to be more accountable to the American public for all the wars it has waged across the globe, far from its borders. -
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