Washington – China is aggressively developing facilities cyber war and is now in a position ready to disrupt, even crippling the United States military activity in the world. So the warning was delivered by a special commission in the U.S. Congress institutions. In a commission report US-China Economic and Security Review Commission that, stated that China is on the computer facilities to attack the government and the U.S. commercial sector.
It has been mentioned, the Chinese had attacked the U.S. computer system masif in 2002, given the code name Titan Rain. At that time, and quoted by detikINET, China successfully get about 20 Terabytes of data from the U.S. computer networks.
“With the capability of operating cyber of China at this time, they can use it to perform a variety of cyber attacks that can not be dropped by United States, may not even be detected,” the statement in the report.
The report also write about the activity cracker China likely to operate with the support of the government. Estimated, there are about 250 groups in China cracker are left worked, even supported by the state for damaging the target computer network.
This report also quoted a comment from the captain Gary McAlum U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations, who explain that China has developed a capability that is capable of launching cyber attacks across the world at any time.
Feared, if it occurred during a conflict between the U.S. and China, China’s cyber capabilities this will be the main weapon in crippling the U.S. military. Therefore, the commission is to provide recommendations that the government give a larger budget to improve the capability of the U.S. cyber security.
I think it is really great news. We would like to wait more progress in it.