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Chinese military boosts hacking | Infrastructure plans lack cybersecurity strategy
Chinese military boosts hacking
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071102/NATION/111020070/1001
HONOLULU — Senior military commanders at the U.S. Pacific Command hhere
said China's recent test of an anti-satellite weapon and increased
computer-hacking activities prompted increased defenses for U.S. forces
in the region and in space.
"U.S. space capabilities are an asymmetric advantage that we have to
maintain," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Daniel Leaf, deputy commander of the
U.S. Pacific Command.
"There has been significant discussion and activity to assess the impact
of [the anti-satellite test] and other [Chinese] space developments, and
how to protect our extraordinarily important space capability," he said
in an interview at the command's headquarters at Camp H.M. Smith.

GAO: Infrastructure plans lack cybersecurity strategy
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/150679-1.html
With 85 percent of the countrys critical infrastructure in private
hands, the federal government must make sure that the 17 infrastructure
sectors include cybersecurity in their plans to protect themselves
against cyberattacks and disaster, an official of the Government
Accountability Office has told two House panels. However, none of the
sectors included in their sector plans all 30 cybersecurity criteria,
such as key vulnerabilities and measures to reduce them, the official
also testified.
The critical infrastructure includes sectors such as water,
transportation and energy, but even those chiefly physical
infrastructure sectors rely on computerized control systems. Of the 17
sectors, information technology and communications had the strongest
cybersecurity plans, said David Powner, director of GAO's information
technology management issues. The agriculture, food and commercial
sectors were the least comprehensive, he said.
Until the plans fully address key cyber elements, certain sectors may
not be prepared to respond to a cyberattack against our nations
critical infrastructure,” Powner said at a hearing held Oct. 31 by the
House Homeland Security Committee’s Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and
Science and Technology Subcommittee and its Transportation Security and
Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee.


University asks former employees to keep documents secret
http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2007/11/02/22069/
Ohio University agreed Monday to allow two former information technology
employees to keep sensitive documents inadvertently given away by
university lawyers.
University lawyers filed a motion Oct. 5 asking that Tom Reid and Todd
Acheson return drafts and notes used to prepare a consultant’s
closely-guarded report commissioned after five university servers were
hacked in spring 2006.
In their October motion, university lawyers cautioned that release of
the documents could expose the university to further damage. Fred
Gittes, Acheson’s lawyer, said that the notes and drafts in question
will be used solely for the case and may be returned upon its
completion.
The report, prepared using the documents, recommended that the
university fire both men, then senior Information




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