U.S. Commerce Department Hacked Again

evil agent writes "The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), a branch of the Commerce Department, has sustained several successful attacks. Chinese hackers were able to gain access to its computers and install rootkits and other malware." From the article: "This is the second major attack originating in China that's been acknowledged by the federal government since July. Then, the State Department said that Chinese attackers had broken into its systems overseas and in Washington. And last year, Britain's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Center (NISCC) claimed that Chinese hackers had attacked more than 300 government agencies and private companies in the U.K."

Chinese Hackers?

[IlliniECE]

Chinese hackers installing root kits? Are you sure they weren't Japanese (aka Sony)?

Meanwhile, at a government workstation...

[CompMD]

Hm...so this here purple panda bear says he wants to be my buddy and help me out on the intarweb. Sounds good to me! (click) Gosh I wonder why my workstation is so slow, almost as if its sending all its files to ch!@$!$JGOJ!THIS POST 0WNZ0R3D BY CHINESE HAXORS

Nothing real will happen

[frinkster]

The Chinese have been trying for years to lose that pesky Most-Favored-Nation status, and this administration is not going to give in.

Ipv6

[growse]

Don't forget kids, all these problems will be solved when the US govt goes to ipv6. Since no-one else will be using it, it will confound and confuse anyone trying to hack in!

Re:I don't buy it.

[Shadyman]

You mean you're going to ask the Department, "Does it run Linux"?

DON'T BE RIDICULOUS

[Anonymous Coward]

ARE YOU CRAZY OR SOMETHING? let's not let obvious facts such as these get in the way of a good xenophobic rant and/or nationalistic orgy

Re:The Army Got Smart

[MacDaffy]

First of all, I was working at Apple when the Army made its change to Webstar. Since I retired from the company in 2001, a) EXCUUUUSE MEEE for being a little behind on current news and b) I got your "fanboy" swinging right here. I'm part of the original equipment, bitch, and whether you like it or not, Macs have NEVER been as susceptible to hacking as PC's are. I adopted the Mac platform in December of 1987 and from that day to this one I have not spent ONE CENT on measures to keep me safe from viruses, malware, spyware, trojans, bots, or any of the crap the average PC user has to guard against. I plug my Mac directly into my cable modem and I don't worry about it. If you use Windows, you shouldn't do that. Ever. If you say otherwise, you expose yourself as a wet-behind-the-ears, I've-got-a-pantload ID10T.

The point is that the Army made the change. The point is that they're not using Windows any more.

That "fanboy" term is a bitter acknowledgement that we're busy surfing wherever we please while you're either de-fleaing your system or begging for drivers and software that you don't get to have. Wallow in it. Revel in it. You are coolness personified.

I'll go back to my utopia now.

Thanks Ted!

[bblboy54]

Apparently the the head of commerce [youtube.com] has found a way to unclog the tubes. Now when chineese haxors put their message into the internet it won't be delayed.

Re:How sure?

[sgt_doom]

I hope I don't lose anyone by getting too technical - but another tell-tale sign is the presence of those nifty fortune cookie fortunes at the bottom of all their hax.