U.S. Commerce Department Hacked Again 164
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."
Re:I don't buy it. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:The Army Got Smart (Score:3, Informative)
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=goarmy.c
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.us.a
Been running on Solaris for years. I'm sure your buddy Steve is happy your still drinking the kool-aid.
looks like BIS workstations .. (Score:4, Informative)
It's not a server but hundreds of workstations. What OS do you think they are running on the desktop.
"Hundreds of computers must be replaced to cleanse the agency of malicious code, including rootkits and spyware."
"had identified several successful attempts to attack unattended BIS workstations during the overnight hours."
"The official also confirmed that BIS has limited Internet access to stand-alone workstations that are not connected to the bureau's internal network."
http://www.bis.doc.gov/ [doc.gov] was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 [netcraft.com] when last queried at 7-Oct-2006 02:01:33 GMT
was Re:What OS? Looks like Linux
Re:That's more true than you think (Score:2, Informative)
No, the mark that globalism leaves behind it is higher wages for the previously third world countries. Its already extant in India. So instead of lowering wages in first world countries, its increasing wages in poorer countries. Might take a while, but it gets there.
That works in free and democratic countries like India, where workers are free to do whatever they want. If we required the same safety standards and whatnot (1), and actually taxed companies there providing services here, just like they should tax companies here providing services there, there would be no problem. There are already huge areas that you can't tell apart from other first world countries, which means that manufacturers move to poorer areas, which raises them up, etc, etc... It's working fine, and in fifty years or so we'll have a fairly serious competitor in the world economy. We just need to make sure politicans don't operate India at the expense of the Indian people for American businesses, but considering we can't seem to stop them from operating the US that way, we're probably going to have to deal with that problem locally first.
However, that doesn't apply to China and other communist countries. What happened with Russia proves we shouldn't just ignore them, and trading and openness can be good, but if you think that enough money from the US gets passed to workers in China to raise their standard of living you have another think coming.
Workers in non-open countries are essentially, slave laborers. Your logic is like attempting to free pre-Civil War slaves by buying a lot of cotton from slave-owners, thus the slave's standard of living will go up and they will eventually be able to afford a better life. That doesn't make a lot of sense.
And, yes, we are not the only country in the world, and others could, indeed, trade with them. Pre-Stupid-War, we had some influence on the global community, but we can still offer other countries incentives,and a lot of places already don't want to trade with China or have such small economies it doesn't matter. Instead, we offer China incentives for...I have no idea.
1) Bhopalm India, was the site of the most horrific industrial accident ever, caused by an American company, United Carbine, due to cutting corners on their almost non-existent safety systems. And we've still refused to extradite the people responsible to India, and India is so deep in their pockets they aren't pressing the matter of 15,000 charges of manslaughter! If they'd killed Americans, the entire company would have been sued to the ground.