Chinese Hackers Along The Long Tail
Forbes –
Paller believes that the 10 most prominent U.S. defense contractors–including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman–have, for the past 14 months, been the victims of the same sort of cyberespionage that has recently plagued the Pentagon.
He and other experts warn that the classified military technology research held by these private sector companies is even more vulnerable to hackers than the data stored on government computers.
What happens when China’s hackers move down the long tail and away from the secret and the compartmentalized and the defense sector? Automated theft of all available intellectual property? (This is different from hacking in general, which, to a significant degree lacks the center of gravity that China is beginning to provide.)
-Shlok
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