Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams 256
coolnumbr12 writes "Chinese hackers have infiltrated a sensitive U.S. Army database that contains information about the vulnerabilities of thousands of dams located throughout the United States. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams (NID) has raised concerns that information gathered in the hack could help China carry out a cyber-attack on the national electrical power grid."
This crosses one of Obama's famous red lines. (Score:5, Funny)
You guys have nine years to knock that shit off or there is gonna be trouble.
Just got to say (Score:5, Funny)
Dam these Chinese!
Re:Fucking hell (Score:3, Funny)
Either the Chinese are excellent hackers or we suck at security.
The software was probably written by a Chinese outsourcing firm in the first place.
Re:Lazy execs or engineers? (Score:5, Funny)
Anything behind a barbed wire fence should never be connected to the Internet.
Earl! Unplug the cows!
Re:Oh yeah, thats a great idea (Score:4, Funny)
Re:how is this not an act of war? (Score:3, Funny)
Proof? Who gives two $hits? I'm f$cking relieved that they haven't tried to pin it on Syria, Iran, Chechnya(?), The Tea Party, Occupy*, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexican Drug Lords, Canadian pharmacies, poor people, rich people, unions, PETA, gun owners, gun makers, Muslims, drug addicts, Social Security, or Medicaid & Medicare, or smokers.