USAF Cyber Command (catch all)

**AdamG** · 02-11-2011

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/...s_cyberattacks

BEIJING – Hackers operating from China stole sensitive information from Western oil companies, a U.S. security firm reported Thursday, adding to complaints about pervasive Internet crime traced to the country.
The report by McAfee Inc. did not identify the companies but said the "coordinated, covert and targeted" attacks began in November 2009 and targeted computers of oil and gas companies in the United States, Taiwan, Greece and Kazakhstan. It said the attackers stole information on operations, bidding for oil fields and financing.
"We have identified the tools, techniques, and network activities used in these continuing attacks — which we have dubbed Night Dragon — as originating primarily in China," said the report.

**anonamatic** · 02-14-2011

Originally Posted by AdamG quoted

"We have identified the tools, techniques, and network activities used in these continuing attacks — which we have dubbed Night Dragon — as originating primarily in China," said the report.

Things are as usual getting fuzzy afterward though... You can see from the following urls there's spin & weaseling going on. Wen Weiping doesn't bother to address the issue of what types of malware were used, and that they were of Chinese origin, & popular there. That's obviously rather a bit too convenient.

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2011/02/12/1461s620380.htm

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/1118...interllige.htm

**AdamG** · 03-15-2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's Cyber Command has shut down Defense Department workers' access to popular streaming video websites including YouTube, Amazon, and Googlevideo. Officials say the tremendous demand to see the Japan earthquake is eating up bandwidth already weakened by Internet problems in that part of the world.

http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/5482...terstitialskip

So, a natural disaster would be a good time to launch a sneak attack.

**Stan** · 03-15-2011

The threat of cyber-war--and of a catastrophic hacker attack to Germany's industrial or military infrastructure--is spurring the creation of two new high-level government organizations.

The Federal Republic of Germany has just released a comprehensive cyber-security strategy [PDF] that will create two high-level government agencies devoted exclusively to cyber-war. Germany's move to mobilize for cyber-war is one of the boldest Internet decisions made by a European power in years.