http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43199200/ns/te...cience-security

Uh, yeah...not good.

Me thinks the Chinese are behind it...

Outstanding. We'll probably be hearing that. My brother is A computer guy in the Marines, he said that he'll probably be hearing more about that later. Lol

At least they stopped them before any tasty infoz were gleaned.

' date='May 28 2011, 07:56 PM' post='54717']

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43199200/ns/te...cience-security

Uh, yeah...not good.

Me thinks the Chinese are behind it...

Perhaps it was the Chinese. It might also be terrorist organizations trying to exploit new computer weaknesses in the hoping of doing damage in respose to bin Laden's death, or part of an ongoing Jihad with the US (the Great Satan that we are known as).

It's hard to imagine that I was involved in an FBI briefing to a major automotive supplier almost 20 years ago. At that time, the FBI beleived that the break-up of the former Soviet Union block countries were turning their spy networks from Cold War / government espionage to industrial espoinage for a couple of reasons. First of all, it was easier to steal corporate secrets instead of military (dah!). Second, these countries' economies were in shambles after the Soviet break up. So they wanted to copy / steal industrial secrets as a means to help jump start and leap frog their economies. The FBI had targeted 17 industries for such espionage and this supplier worked in 13 of them.

It is also conceivable that organized crime might have something to do with this. I think the chances of this are much smaller. It is more conceivable that you have a set of small, gifted, independent hackers out there trying to see what they can exploit.