Spies hack Pentegon

[Praxeas]

WASHINGTON — Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.

Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517232,00.html


Maybe you are like me and wondering, what in the world are top classified files doing on a computer connected to a network?!?!?!


It's times like this I have to wonder if this was not intentionally done.

[JaneEyre]

The only real protection and security we can rely on is being safe in His hands...In His Grip...Under His wings, so to speak. ...Safe in the arms of God or whatever way you care to say it.

That is Pentagon, not Pentegon......I sure make my share of typos.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

WASHINGTON — Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.

Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517232,00.html


Maybe you are like me and wondering, what in the world are top classified files doing on a computer connected to a network?!?!?!


It's times like this I have to wonder if this was not intentionally done.

I wonder how long they were in the system in order to get "several terabytes"?

It must have been an inside job.

[LUKE2447]

exactly why in the world would any computers with that type of info be directly accessible to any type of network. You should have to be at the computer to download or upload anything. Things like that should be local access only without network access.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I wonder how long they were in the system in order to get "several terabytes"?

It must have been an inside job.

exactly. I don't doubt there was inside help too, but still the stuff is on the network, not just an internal network. That is scary that we have so much sensitive data and systems all linked together by a network.

[RandyWayne]

After reading the story, it doesn't look like the Pentagon was hacked, just the computers of those involved in manufacturing parts for the plane. But still, this is ridicules. The only reason these networks are even exposed is so that employees can check their emails at home and occasionally do some work in their PJ's.

[TJJJ]

HHHHHHHHHHmmmmmmmmmm,

Maybe the same people that hacked Sis Alvears computer....

You think?