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Nation-state attackers affiliated with the Chinese government have made off with a trove of undersea military secrets, according to a report.
Hackers were able to mount a lateral attack after compromising the networks of a Navy contractor working for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island, according to a Washington Post report, citing American officials.
The result? “Massive amounts of highly sensitive data” flowed into the hands of China, unnamed officials told the paper, including “secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020.”
The incident happened January and February, the sources said, and resulted in 614 gigabytes of data, most of it highly sensitive info related to American offensive and defensive systems, including cryptography systems for secure communication, signals and sensor data, and the Navy’s electronic submarine warfare library, which contains information about adversary radar platforms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:27AM (3 children)
And people still pass data unencrypted reasoning it's a "secure landline".
Last I checked the existing generation of torpedoes has 95% success rate so the only secret here is the waste of money this is.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:36AM
Last I checked, torpedoes and missile have different ranges.
In any case, destruction will always be a waste of money and both of them have pure destructive purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:59AM (1 child)
I get the idea that the "Rods from God" concept would be fatal to ships... Guided Kinetic weapons.
I would imagine it would be almost like when one is in an airplane, if one sees another airplane in the sky... and it does NOT appear to move ... then both of you are on a collision course.
The "Rod from God" will have a very tiny observation window in space, and appear to not move... from your vantage point ... until its right on you.
And China is getting quite comfortable about using space based systems.
( A "Rod from God" is something like a telephone pole sized chunk of something like a depleted uranium alloy, alloyed for temperature and hardness, and extremely heavy, in orbit, de-orbited, arriving at earth's surface almost white-hot at enormous velocity. No propellant or explosives involved. Sheer delivered kinetic energy on impact. Nasty. )
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by tftp on Wednesday June 13 2018, @03:43PM