Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Jonathan Greenert told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee yesterday that the Asia Pivot Policy is working and China’s Military is NOT a threat…Admiral Greenert must not have got the memo from his Aide-de-Camp regarding the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) report on the People’s Republic of China’s Military and Security Developments…that came out YESTERDAY…

Admiral – couldn’t agree with you more, now that the Marines have left Okinawa, China is claiming Okinawa is Chinese soverign territory…really?!

I wonder if the Chief of Naval Operation actually reads or prepares for his House briefings…perhaps those new cost effective LCS with Chinese made parts are more of a concern…perhaps it is fitting that you say “Send in the Marines!”

Semper Fi,

謝謝您

紅龍

"Despite denials from Beijing, there seems little doubt that China’s computer hackers are engaged in an aggressive and increasingly threatening campaign of cyber espionage directed at a range of government and private systems in the United States, including the power grid and telecommunications networks." …  The use of the term ‘war’ and ‘cyber’ is offensive…granted my book "21st Century Chinese Cyber Warfare" uses these terms as if the intent was to satisfy a publisher’s wet dream…the reality is that collectively, we, the People’s Republic of China and the rest of the world are not yet engaged in a binary war…conflict yes, but war – NO! When will we know if it is WAR?…when ICS and SCADA systems are irreparably damaged necessitating US Federal Troops to be deployed on US soil to maintain law and order, when you cannot go and purchase gasoline for your car or SUV, when you can no longer enjoy the freedoms you have become accustomed to..$ 7.00 latte’s…$5.00/gallon petrol…

NO we are not at war yet…in the cyber domain…the 5th dimension is militarized, that’s true…yet protection of national critical infrastructure is still the responsibility of commercial enterprises…when business & company’s throw in the infosec towel and say ‘enough’ & ‘let the military handle protecting our networks’, then you will know it is cyberwar….until that condition is met information assurance and security of your organizational secrets is still your responsibility…

Significant Ket Findings from Volume 18 of Symantec’s threat report:

247,350 Blocked Web Attacks Daily…

  74,000 Malicious Web Domains that were BOTH New & Unique….

Interestingly – small to medium size businesses are the hackers target of choice…"offering the path of least resistance…"

"Key Findings

42% increase in targeted attacks in 2012.31% of all targeted attacks aimed at businesses with less than 250 employees.One waterhole attack infected 500 organizations in a single day.14 zero-day vulnerabilities.32% of all mobile threats steal information.A single threat infected 600,000 Macs in 2012.Spam volume continued to decrease, with 69% of all email being spam.The number of phishing sites spoofing social networking sites increased 125%.Web-based attacks increased 30%.5,291 new vulnerabilities discovered in 2012, 415 of them on mobile operating systems."

Interestnig that the People’s Republc of China’s technology blog sina.com.cn is reporting on the distrust of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE) Huawei & ZTE by Indian Intelligence…Mr Ren, Et Al cannot even get a break from another nation state such as India – this is not good folks for Chinese telecommunications manufaturers…

Mr. Ren Zhegfei declares telecom technology war on US commercial enterprises…standby to standby…continued by saying the People’s Republic of China already has all the intellectual property of the United States, China is the Middle Kingdom…

People’s Republic of China’s State Owned Enterprise (SOE) Allwinner Technologies Co. Ltd. (Zhuhai, People’s Republlic of China) has sold more tablet computer processors than all Western commercial manufacturers combined! If you use a tablet in ICS or SCADA environments check your tablets’ processor country of orign ASAP! Then contact me to figure out what to do next to protect your enterprise from Chinese hacking efforts….check out their website:

http://www.arm.com/community/partners/display_company/rw/company/allwinner-technology-co-ltd/

"In a week that began with the rare move of the Pentagon calling out the Chinese government and military for attacks on U.S. government networks, some key senators have drafted a bill that would create a watch list of nations conducting cyberespionage against the U.S., and spell out just what technologies and products are being stolen — as well as which foreign firms benefit from the intellectual property stolen from the U.S."

MicroSolved’s own Bill Hagestad is quoted in this Chinese Cyber Espionage piece by the Epoch Times:

“The Office of the Secretary of Defense is getting it correct albeit not entirely historically correct from a Chinese view,” says William Hagestad II, author of ’21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare’ and Chinese cyber security consultant, in an email.  “The People’s Republic of China will go the full measure of preventing foreign commercial and yes, military domination of the Chinese information domain in the 21st Century.”