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Hackers breach US Fighter project

by on21 April 2009

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Enemies know how to fight the fighter


The
Wall Street Journal has revealed that the Pentagon's costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project has been repeatedly breached by hackers.

Apparently the hackers have stolen data related to design and electronics systems, making it potentially easier to defend against the plane. Most of the really top secret data was not connected to the Internet, but the project seems to have had enough damage done to it for top defence chiefs to be worried.

It appears that the weakness in the network was through contractor's networks which were involved in building the fighter jet. That means Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and BAE Systems had holes wide enough to let the hackers in. The identity of the attackers and the amount of damage to the project could not be established but needless to say everyone is looking at China.

The attacks appear to have come from behind the bamboo curtain, but as China points out, that just means that they used a proxy server based in that country.
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