According to an army document produced in August this year for the Pentagon’s Department for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and first reported last week by Inside Defense:

“Exfiltrations of unclassified data from [military contractor computer] systems have occurred and continue to occur, potentially undermining and even neutralizing the technological advantage and combat effectiveness of the future force,”

“Current … efforts largely focus on mitigating risks of compromise to war-fighting technologies as a result of traditional espionage or industrial theft,”

“hostile actors can exfiltrate large volumes of unclassified program information in a single attack that can potentially net enough information to enable adversaries to narrow a capability gap.”

Sure this initiative will bear fruit but I think more needs to be done within the Government security departments to combat potential cyber security threats. Only this week I saw Airport Security personnel hooked up on MSN.com at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport on a light day. Open Internet is a risky area for airport security personnel don’t you think?

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According to the report:

LIGNex1 develops and manufactures Hyunmoo surface-to-surface missile, Haeseong ship-to-ship missile and Shingung portable ground-to-air weapons. Hyundai Heavy Industries manufactures Haeseong, the nation’s first Aegis ship, plus destroyers and submarines for the Navy. Although the development costs of such high-tech weapons are kept secret, the construction of the King Sejong the Great-class destroyer is said to cost over W1 trillion (US$1=W1,165) and development of Haeseong ship-to-ship missile W100 billion with each missile at approximately W2 billion.

The National Security Research Institute, which is affiliated with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, believes hackers have planted vicious codes through which they stolen information. “The research institute suspects the culprits are Chinese or North Korean hackers but doesn’t know specifically what information they stole,” Kim said. “In the worst case, the blueprints of missiles and Aegis ship could have been stolen.”