{"id":185944,"date":"2014-07-09T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/09\/this-is-like-gm-breaking-into-fords-dearborn-headquarters-to-steal-the-plans-for-the-edsel\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:10:00","slug":"this-is-like-gm-breaking-into-fords-dearborn-headquarters-to-steal-the-plans-for-the-edsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/09\/this-is-like-gm-breaking-into-fords-dearborn-headquarters-to-steal-the-plans-for-the-edsel\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Like GM Breaking into Ford&#8217;s Dearborn Headquarters to Steal the Plans for the Edsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese cyperspies are <a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/07\/why-are-chinese-cyberspies-targeting-us-think-tanks\/\">targeting US think tanks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday, reports emerged that U.S. Middle East experts at major U.S. think tanks had been hacked by a Chinese cyperespionage group with links to the Chinese government. The hacker group, known as \u201cDEEP PANDA\u201d by security researchers, left few clues as to why specifically it targeted these U.S. targets, but it is likely that the incident could overshadow the looming U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Cyber issues are coming to the fore in U.S.-China relations and the U.S. government is growing increasingly wary of government-sponsored cyberespionage originating from China.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the Washington Post\u2019s report on the incident, the \u201clatest breach follows a pattern identified by experts of Chinese cyberspies targeting major Washington institutions, including think tanks and law firms.\u201d Following this breach, we are left to speculate on the motive. Security researcher Dmitri Alperovitch, cited by the Post notes that his firm noticed a \u201cradical\u201d change in DEEP PANDA\u2019s activity on June 18, \u201cthe same day witnesses reported that Sunni extremists seized Iraq\u2019s largest oil refinery.\u201d Although Alperovitch did not disclose specifically which experts or think tanks were affected, the motive prima facie appears to be interest in learning what U.S. experts know about the ongoing situation in Iraq. The hackers may have been attempting to gain access to to non-public information that these experts were privy to.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea that the Chinese are using finite resources to troll the the ideas of people like Jim DeMint (Heritage) and the Koch brothers (Cato) worries me not one whit.<\/p>\n<p>While you are at it, how about you just get the North Koreans to kidnap all their employees, and take them to Pyongyang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese cyperspies are targeting US think tanks: On Tuesday, reports emerged that U.S. Middle East experts at major U.S. think tanks had been hacked by a Chinese cyperespionage group with links to the Chinese government. The hacker group, known as \u201cDEEP PANDA\u201d by security researchers, left few clues as to why specifically it targeted these &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,982,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-espionage","category-stupid","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}