Cyber Command - Gvt. haxors + an attempted hack
Ξ February 13th, 2008 | → | ∇ Blog |
Cyber Command is the US Air Force’s newest command. If there was ever a government group that I’d want to be a part of, its this one. How flippin’ sweet would that be .. hack foreign nations all day.
I got a call from the library I have been working with for ten years. I’m the UNIX Systems Admin and Programmer for them. My gig there is mostly running webservers figuring out why websites aren’t working, writing the occasional utility, dealing with spam issues, networking and security. For the most part, everything there is automated. Over the years I’ve built in all kinds of monitoring and software that handles events. I keep an eye on things, but intervene when there is a problem. I got a call yesterday .. there was a problem. The call was that the network had slowed down to a crawl. I did the “low tech verification” and tried to bring up the library webpage. It crawled. hrmmmm .. what the heck is going on here. I logged into one of the servers and while my connection was slow I was able to run some commands and look around. Holy Cats!!! hundreds of connections. Not just to the server that I was on, but to all the other servers on the network. The IP addresses were coming from China and Italy. Some Mo Fo’s were trying to hack me from Italy and China. Grrr. In the end, our systems are updated every week with the latest security patches. Nobody was able to get in, but it brought the network to a crawl for a while.
You’d be surprised how often this sort of thing happens to small networks. To the library it happens every few months, which is why we always keep our security up to date. I’m sure they get into a lot of networks. Just not ours; this time.
a few articles on cyber warfare
Hackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites
US and Chinese hackers trade blows
Chinese hackers breach US military defences
Chinese Hackers
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