____/ peterwn on Monday 10 September 2007 20:43 : \____
> See:
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/4197227a10.html
>
> New Zealand's Security Intelligence (NZ's CIA equivalent) has
> uncovered cyber attacks on Government computers by foreign powers.
>
> If there is any reason to ditch un-auditable closed soft software and
> adopt instead transparent open source software (with Government
> written special 'proprietary' tweaksif need be especially for maximum
> security applications), this is it.
>
> This pushes almost into insignificance 'total cost of ownership' and
> other arguments favouring continuance with a certain prominent
> proprietary software product line.
In the past 2-3 week alone, some of the the world's strongest nations have all
fallen victim to their own mistake, which was to deploy Windows across their
network (they are as vulnerable as their weakest link).
References:
Chinese cyber-attacks allegedly launched against British government departments
,----[ Quote ]
| The British NISCC warned of trojan attacks from Asia back in June 2005.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95514/from/rss09
Indian Bank Restores Site After Malware Attack
,----[ Quote ]
| The bank has closed the site on Friday after it found that the site had been
| hacked,
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070904/tc_pcworld/136716
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
,----[ Quote ]
| The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the
| most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American
| officials.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html
Politicians want to be informed on Chinese Trojan attacks
,----[ Quote ]
| Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
| said: "If there is clear evidence that the Chinese state is responsible for
| these attacks, we cannot let the matter rest." According to a Spiegel report,
| the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that
| experts of the Chinese army have conducted the online espionage attacks
| against the Federal Chancellery, the ministry of economics, the ministry of
| research and also the ministry of foreign affairs.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94983/from/rss09
It was later confirmed that Germany had indeed been exposed. Same in the US.
Mind you, these are stories from the past couple of weeks _alone_. I could
list many more if I went further back.
National assets and sensitive data is probably just being exchanged joyfully
between the crackers. One intrusion is enough. Zombie PCs are even better.
Some of the nations have learned and they adopted a policy that includes Linux,
standards, and source code.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Linux: mint and self-contained 'out of the box'
http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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