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The New York Times and Wall Street Journal claimed that attackers from China attempted to hack the news companies' computers in what seemed to be a state-sponsored attack. China denies these allegations. In a world where the Internet's importance is increasing dramatically, cyber-attacks are becoming more common. Soon, soldiers specializing in computer and Internet security will have the same importance as marines and artillery. The United States must invest more time and money in cyber-security training programs or it will be left behind and needlessly expose itself to future computer attacks. The government should invest in incentives for education in computer security with grants and scholarships. Recruitment for the NSA and similar agencies charged with keeping America's information highways safe should be invested in just as much as the navy or air force. This will keep the United States safe and allow more people to serve our country in ways they otherwise could not have. The soldiers of the future will not fight with bullets but with DOS attacks and rainbow tables.
Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1047269/china-peoples-daily-rejects-us-hacking-claims
I keep hearing that we need to invest more in cyber soldiers, and then I hear about the U.S. destroying a pipeline in Russia with a logic bomb, or destroying the Uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran. I think the U.S. is better prepared than they are letting on.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if China hacking our news companies' computer networks says much about our security as a nation. The NSA isn't going to help computer networks write secure software. I think the root of the problem is that more and more people are trying to hack together web applications. Companies find programmers that they can hire for cheap instead of getting real engineers to program for them. Right now I'm refactoring an entire website that had PHP database calls in the middle of HTML. There was absolutely no whitelisting, blacklisting, or validating user input. They were practically begging to be hacked.
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