I really think the Neocons in Congress need to stop war mongering over Taiwan. It is a one China policy. The sooner the USA lives up to its policy the sooner the Chinese will stop being paranoid about every aspect of USA technology.
Computers Controlling Military Drones Reportedly Infected with Virus (click title to entry - thank you)
The computers used to control Predator and Raptor drones used in Afghanistan and other war zones have been reportedly infected by a virus that captures the keystrokes of the pilots operating the unmanned aircraft.
Chinese hackers spread virus using replica websites (click here)
August 6, 2011New Delhi: Chinese hackers may be using websites alike to those of 19 high courts in the country to spread computer virus which can renovate the user’s system into a virtual zombie, a security expert has claimed.
China To Use Computer Viruses As Cyberwarfare First Strike (click here)
The Defense Department reports that the People's Liberation Army is moving beyond traditional battlefields and into cyberspace.
By Sharon Gaudin InformationWeek
May 29, 2007 04:08 PM
I really think the Neocons in Congress need to stop war mongering over Taiwan. It is a one China policy. The sooner the USA lives up to its policy the sooner the Chinese will stop being paranoid about every aspect of USA technology.
Computers Controlling Military Drones Reportedly Infected with Virus (click title to entry - thank you)
Oct 7, 2011 3:51 PM
The computers used to control Predator and Raptor drones used in Afghanistan and other war zones have been reportedly infected by a virus that captures the keystrokes of the pilots operating the unmanned aircraft.Although detected two weeks ago by the military's network security systems, the military has been unable to purge its computers of the apparent keyboard logger, Noah Shactman reported Friday in Wired's Danger Room blog.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” a source familiar with the network infection told Shactman. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know."
According to the report, the virus hasn't prevented pilots stationed at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada--where the drone control center is located--from completing their missions. Nor has any classified information been lost or sent to an outside source, Wired reported….
Chinese hackers spread virus using replica websites (click here)
August 6, 2011
New Delhi: Chinese hackers may be using websites alike to those of 19 high courts in the country to spread computer virus which can renovate the user’s system into a virtual zombie, a security expert has claimed.
Former naval officer Commander Mukesh Saini, who is a cyber security consultant, brought the despicable designs of these alleged hackers to the notice of Cybercrime wing of the CBI lately, which is looking into it....
China To Use Computer Viruses As Cyberwarfare First Strike (click here)
The Defense Department reports that the People's Liberation Army is moving beyond traditional battlefields and into cyberspace.
By Sharon Gaudin InformationWeek
May 29, 2007 04:08 PM
The People's Liberation Army in China is building up its cyberwarfare capabilities, even creating malware that could attack enemy computer systems in first-strike attacks, according to a report from the Department of Defense.
The PLA, which is the largest standing army in the world, has established information warfare units geared to developing viruses that can attack enemy computer systems and networks, the Defense Department reported. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2000 mandates that the secretary of defense make an annual report to Congress on the current and future military strategy of the People's Republic of China….
VIRUS ATTACK / Malware a Vicious Visitor
New virus is smart, aggressive and blocks antivirus protection at will
February 15, 2008|By Deborah Gage, Chronicle Staff Writer
General Atomics Wins Approval to Sell First Predator Drones in Middle East (click here)
By Gopal Ratnam - Jul 20, 2010 2:53 PM ET
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. said it won U.S. approval for an export version of the Predator drone, clearing the way for the first sales of the unmanned aircraft in the Middle East.
Neal UngerleiderFalafel Mafia
Remember the warm welcome by Pakistan of the Chinese?
VIRUS ATTACK / Malware a Vicious Visitor
New virus is smart, aggressive and blocks antivirus protection at will
February 15, 2008|By Deborah Gage, Chronicle Staff Writer
An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games - and its designers might have larger targets in mind.
"It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence," said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse….
General Atomics Wins Approval to Sell First Predator Drones in Middle East (click here)
By Gopal Ratnam - Jul 20, 2010 2:53 PM ET
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. said it won U.S. approval for an export version of the Predator drone, clearing the way for the first sales of the unmanned aircraft in the Middle East.
“There’s interest from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates,” Frank Pace, president of the aircraft systems group at the closely held company, said today in an interview at the Farnborough Air Show near London.
General Atomics recently received U.S. State Department approval to offer an unarmed Predator model to countries beyond the NATO bloc, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Pace said. That would allow sales in the Middle East and elsewhere to governments previously ineligible to buy the planes, he said….
Neal Ungerleider
Falafel Mafia
Jul. 20 2010 - 2:13 pm
In the boring-but-important department, the US government has approved export of a modified version of the unmanned Predator drone to the Middle East and South Asia. First on the list of potential buyers? Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Prior to this, sale of Predators was approved only to the NATO bloc, Japan, Australia and New Zealand….
…The non-NATO Predators will differ from the full-functionality versions in several significant ways. Most importantly, they will lack the ability to carry missiles and will be crippled to perform surveillance and reconnaissance missions only.
Pakistan is currently embroiled in an ongoing insurgency against local Islamists while Saudi Arabia is widely suspected of involvement in the ongoing Zaidi insurgency in Yemen.
Drone aircrafts are in wide use throughout the Middle East, with both home-grown and foreign-purchased systems a common feature of all the region’s air forces. Turkey unveiled one of their own just last week, intended for the use in the Kurdish insurgency….
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– SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops battled Taliban extremists Sunday morning to win control of the remnants of a CIA UAV that crashed in the nation’s borderlands, according to Pakistani security officials.
The cause of the crash of the unmanned Predator UAV, among the drones the CIA uses to fire missiles at Taliban and al-Qaida hide-outs in the rocky region bordering Afghanistan, remained in dispute hours after it was downed in Zangarha village in South Waziristan….
Remember the warm welcome by Pakistan of the Chinese?
May 5, 2011
By Bill Sweetman
A previously undisclosed, classified stealth helicopter apparently was part of the U.S. task force that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1….
