CYBER WAR

Cyber war is being waged against the USA and the west. The two articles below are indicative of the cyber threat that America faces. It is ongoing and will increase as time goes on. It is just one more aspect of the attacks on the west.

Chinas Secret Weapon
From Strategypage:

February 16, 2007: The U.S. government has a growing problem with China's covert Cyber War against the United States. The vast majority of recent hacker attacks on U.S. government and military computer networks are being traced back to China. These attacks are not looking for credit card numbers and data needed for identity theft. No, the action out of China is looking for military and technological secrets, data on how American military networks operate. There are also attempts to plant special "time bomb" software that could be used in wartime. China is quite open about its intention to use surprise and deception in any future war with the United States. Obtaining military secrets via the Internet fits in very well with this strategy.
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www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20070216.aspx

Stumbling Across Islamic Hackers
From Strategypage:

February 16, 2007: Many of us know the Internet is overrun with scams and crooks. We only have to look at the spam that slips through our spam filters to get a taste. Less known is the fact that some of these Internet crooks are doing it to support Islamic terrorism. An example of this was recently revealed at a computer security conference, as two researchers described how they had worked their way into the Internet criminal underground, to find out how it operated, and came up against a group of hackers that also maintained several Islamic radical websites, and that used some of their stolen credit card data was used to buy communications gear and laptops of the type favored by terrorists.
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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20070216.aspx