Joint Strike Fighter project: security breach
Cyberspies have hacked into government computers and stolen sensitive information on a next-generation stealth fighter, according to an investigation published in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. The hackers lifted terabytes of data on the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, the Journal reports, including details about the aircraft’s design that could expose vulnerabilities. The hack is believed to have happened through a hole in a contractors’ network. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and BAE Systems are the primary contractors on the project. None of them has publicly commented.
While the details surrounding the reported Joint Strike Fighter breach are far from clear — how the intruders made off with such a massive amount of data, for example, has yet to be revealed — there’s no question the magnitude of the attack is alarming. Even worse, the unnamed officials cited in the story say hackers have worked their way into the U.S. Air Force air traffic control system recently as well. The F-35 is the Pentagon’s most expensive, complex and ambitious aircraft program. According to program estimates, the total investment required in the F-35 exceeds $1 trillion — more than $300 billion to buy 2,456 aircraft and $760 billion to keep them flying beyond their expected life cycle.
Sourc: PC World, WSJ
Comments(65)
"on the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project"
So much millions of people that have nothing to eat and die for that reason, and this pieces of s_h.i.t making new airplanes.
US Can suck my b.i.g_d.i.c.k
all ur secrets r belong to china
where is rapidshare links???
wow, mischo, funny guy…
i also really want the uploadline link,
please…
LOL well move out of Somalia and your starvation problems wont make you so jealous of American success. So what, countries with money are supposed to hand it out to lazy countries who do nothing to make themselves better? I am sorry but I am about tired of hearing about starving Africans they have a huge land mass and cant support themselves so Feck em!
I thought they just cut funding to the F-22 raptor now theres this fighter plane? doesn't really seem like they cut the right plane since the F-22 was virtually finished.
When north korea decides its war time I think you are gonna be a little happy that the USA has planes.
@2 its not that they belong to china
china is just taking what ever they see fit right now. Been at least 10 Chinese spies caught in the US in the last 6 months and nothing is ever done about it. Just last week they got into some power grid and looked for vulnerabilities. If these turn out to be Chinese spies that is an act of war. Stealing military intelligence can't be seen any other way other than a hostile act.
In four weeks you can buy a jet from China that looks like a F-35 and that can even play Blurays
It would be such a waste and selfish from Pentagon to keep the project just for themselves. Now we every country can probably buy cheap F35s made in china.
Hope they release it for everyone cause its the people's right to experience, study, propagate, modify, and redistribute knowledge.
wait for scene rls activation issues still occur ^^
Sorry guys,
it was me….
I turned off my firewall. can you forgive me?
"terabytes of data"?
Wow, nice theft!
RS links please
Buy chinese knockoff f-35 at the amazingly low price of $20,000,000 dollars.Offer begins june first.
Terms and conditons apply (quoted price per 100 unit sale). Non refundable.
dumbass,
can you show us the link …
let me have an explore …
@ dumbass
With a name like that you must be working for the government.
NUKED!
RapidShare or GTFO!
Wasnt this fighter supposed to be able to climb up into space? Im not realy sure on all that technical stuff.
This kinda crap scares me… we spend so much money on these damn projects to have hackers (most likely Chinese) come in and take it at the cost of probably less then $100K to fund their attempts. Probably made on old X486 machines. And probably because one of the staff was browsing porn or had Bit torrent installed.
Its this kind of thing war's get started over, stealing other country's secrets, especially US as we all know they are kind of trigger happy when it comes to defending there stuff.
Consider that for a moment, is stealing some data worth WW3, before you cheer up some morons stealing goverment secret's, it might sounds nice, in the end though, we might end up paying the price.
@1 the project started way before the recession and america has been allocating probably 25% of it's trillion dollar budgets to military projects such as this one since the cold war
if the dumb ass war mungering c**ts spent that amount of money on third world countries and lifted all the trade embargo's the wouldn't be any need for such a plane
on contridictory point its planes like this and war that fuels the technology we use today especially the internet and low price computers
I have never seen so many stupid people think they are funny.
More from the WSJ article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027491029837401.html
"Computer systems involved with the program appear to have been infiltrated at least as far back as 2007, according to people familiar with the matter. Evidence of penetrations continued to be discovered at least into 2008. The intruders appear to have been interested in data about the design of the plane, its performance statistics and its electronic systems, former officials said."
@19.
Very true, war serves as one of the greatest developers of technology.
As an aside it also serves as population control
To all the whingers who say that the money would be better spent on abolishing world debts….communism only works in theory
what would a one time abolishment of world debt do? nothing! a few more people might get help but most of the money would end up in dictators or corrupt goverments hands or at the least get siphoned off for other services. And after we'd just have more (financially) hungry people after a quick binge.
Also the big world fear isnt from these small broke countries its from world powers fighting. Although it would be interesting to see how smaller countries responded when their debt was erased.
Also this theft happened between 07 and 08 and supposedly the good stuff is stored on a truly secure (if their is one) network. The problem is the plane is developed and built like our cars… by a bunch of seperate companies across the country and (most) of the data is exchanged between them (makes you wonder how they did this in the days before lighting fast speeds) so all those networks even at small companies need to be secured.
This release was nuked.
Reason: oversized
[NUKED] mcdonalds_over.sized_i42.tinypic.com.x3fsb4.jpg
@ghandi:
So, now USA is the victim?
What about the CIA spying in others countries?
As a member of a fairly neutral country, i laugh my ass off if the US will lose another thousands of soldiers in an upcoming war. Probably vs North Korea. (Tank rush inc!! oh false game..)
when an american plane can do somthing more than a role please wak eme up, untill then enjoy them on the big screen with specail effects that they can only dream of performing for real..
Pics or it didnt happen,….o wait, scratch that….binary data or it didnt happen!
@1 (008)
if people would have everything to eat and not die for the lack of that, what would happen to this world population vise?
it's called population control, my friend. whether it's mother nature (like most diseases) or human nature (like wars) it's not much different.
@27, go ahead and laugh…and the US will remember that the next time the Swiss/Netherlands come close to being taken over by some European Tinpot who thinks they have the right to run Europe. It will most likely be Russia as they are rebuilding their army and starting to make economic and physical attacks against other countries (remember Georgia? How they decimated that country in less then 3 weeks?) And with your "neutral" country, you would not stand a snowball's chance in he!! in stopping them if they decided they wanted your seaports. Or it could be Germany again as they have a massive rise in the leftist Nazi movement (Conserv's say less government, leftists say more government, so how can the movements like the Nazi's be anything BUT lefists when they think the Government should control all aspects of social life and make you a good 'party' member just like the other leftist ideal…communism?)
@26 PUH-LEAZE. Dont EVEN try to say that other countries are not spying on the US or each other. Your statement is like the pot calling the kettle black and is as stupid as I have ever seen here.
@19, Jason you have to be Old Confused Punkinhead as your statement is just as stupid and dumb as the statements coming from his spewings. The man who invented the Segway has invented a water purification machine that runs on solar power and not only makes clean water out of foul, but also generates enough electricity to run lights and a small TV in a village of over 200 people. He has donated these by the thousands to African villages and countries..guess where they are? They are either sitting on docks and not given out or have been taken for military units. Look at the billions of tons of grain the US and Canada sent to Africa during the drought that sat on the shipping docks and rotted because no one would take it to the people. So next time before you open your idiotic c**thole of a mouth and start showing people how ignorant you really are, maybe you should actually do your homework and be asking the question as to why with the hundreds of trillions of dollars of aide and money and forgiven debts the world has already poured into Africa, why has it not become better for the people who live there? You figure that out and then you can complain.
****ing Chinese never get it. Just like to keep pissing off people.
@30 (Czech dumplings)
Wrong, people don't need everything to eat, actually the people i'm talking about have nothing but flesh and bones (Africans for example), and most of the Americans are FAT (aka King Kong) as a pile of s.h.i_t. USA likes to looks like the "saviors" when they don't give a f.u_c.k about the others unless they have something reliable for them in trade, it's all about money, i just would love to see if s.h.i_t was the true money, i'd laugh so hard.
anything that hurts the american military machine can only be a good thing hopefully they will have to scrap it helping the economy there no end lol
Please give rapidshare.com
@33, pUH-LEAZE…have you ever been on a florida beach and seen some of the elephantine people from Europe who think that weighing 70 stone and having more rolls of fat then jabba The Hutt somehow looks good in a bikini or a speedo? Get your countrymen and women on a diet and then when all of you are fit, can you start to rag on someone else.
@34, I dare you to go on a US or nato military base and say that out loud. Pretty brave behind a computer keyboard aint ya?
@ common sense all i can say is well said…
@ghandi:
Man, you're messed up. So, according to you, to blame for all economic problems african countries have, are themselves? Come on, wake up!
When there was a British Empire, we owned about 3/4 of Africa and with us being there things were alot better, there weren't wars because they daren't piss off the British, we started industrializing some parts, built railways, brought them western medicine (the kind that actually makes you better) and built schools. Now they are asking for more of our money because, when we left after WW2, they messed it all up and started killing each other again. We are better off leaving them to their own devices and letting them sort it out themselves, no one helped Europe become what it is today.
But on the topic of the plane, it's going to be a piece of s_h_i_t anyway, because it's not going to measure up to the Typhoon, Harrier (which it took the Americans 40 years to figure out how it doesn't need a runway) or the Tornado.
Somebody is getting very rich and somebody is getting very locked up in jail.
Not chinese i think russians..
Region free??
lol @5….thought the exact same thing. They'll make there own version and it'll be a quarter of the price.
$1 trillion on fighter jet. $100 on internet security.
It didn't say Chinese in the OP, actually didn't point to any direction, and could just be another 911 scam to raise money for more military-industrial complex greed. Most likely this will be another case they'll parade when pushing for seizing the internets.
Don't worry people, the bankers will come up with the WWIII soon enough, and then we'll all go marching in for great justice brought to us by Rockefeller & Co.
shut up
These d.a.m.n hackers did, what we supposed to do today morning after breakfast!!!
We have a lot of illegal stuffs, Can we exchange some informations?? … pleassssse!!!
i wish i could download 'terabytes' of data, but my cap is only 25gb
Hey lets put our top secret info on computers, then lets connect those computers to the internets. Brilliant !
I'm not so surprised with the fact that someone or a group of people hacked into a machine connected to the internet. I'm just very shocked that no one noticed that terabytes of data were leaving. As fast as the connection may be, how do you not notice a couple of extra terabytes missing from your bandwidth.
the F-35 is an amazing piece of technology… the later generation models are expected to be equipped with directed energy weapons… so awesome XD
the plane it beat out for the contract was nicknamed the Monica, because it had an extremely large air intake, that sucked a lot:P
@31 So the Nazis were leftist? LMAO get a education or least use Wiki.
@39 Slagging off the plane because you think it's just an American plane is moronic, since Britain is the main partner to the USA in developing it. The JSF will also be the British replacement for the Harrier.
mrtorch
April 23rd, 2009 | 21:22
@31 So the Nazis were leftist? LMAO get a education or least use Wiki.
No YOU get an education and stop using something that can be changed by anyone at a moments notice or a whim. Liberals want a larger government involvement in everything. Communism is that the STATE comes before anyone. Nazism is that you must be a good party member and act in the STATES best interest. That comes directly from Encyclopedia Britannica and Websters New College Dictionary BOTH 2009 editions. So either that makes you dumber then dirt…or…shows your complete ignorance on these matters …or…both.
This has been nuked already!
If you keep the info on your computers, keep the computers offline.
Damn… If THAT is a novel concept in the US government, I'd hate to see what passes as normal.
- C.O. (a US citizen- not so proud of it anymore)
the ultimate crap fighter has been ultimately hacked…
considering they're a bunch of mass murdering bastards then they will have no pity from me. 9/11 was an inside job implemented by central bankers and USA's cosy little relationship with Pakistan. Al qaeda was trained by the US and bin laden with family was escorted by plane out of the country in his own private jet then all public aircraft were grounded. Lovely world we live in
False Flag Operation!!! wow … so they want a tighter grip on our internet ….
BIG SUPRISE!!!!!!
It was leaked by an anti-military Obama-cult follower.
Destroy the USA from within. Just as Nikita Khrushchev said. The burying is going on right now. Thank you, all you useful idiots!
I would love to see what would happen if your sorry A$$ countries got invaded, and there ya'll go begging the usa to help defend ya'll. I say let your sorry a$$es die, if your gonna be talking all that smack that were fat, say what you want to say at least our woman don't have hairy armpits, or fcked up grills, or dots on our foreheads smelling like funky a$$ hoes!!
Well, 90% of serious hacks needs so called insider
And from year 2007 it quite possible to stole terabytes – it for sure wasn't one night action.
@22
Wars are always followed by baby booms. Wars increase population, not decrease it
And I am sure @55 that you can PROVE what you are spewing with documented fact that cannot be disputed? No? Thought so. Paranoid conspiracy challenged MoFo
first off F.U.C.K U #1 this is our country we do what we want with our money.. it aint our job to give our money to the poor, we do that out of decency, maybe since we do it so often people have gotten spoiled.. maybe you forgot we protect almost every country out there.. how the fk we supposed to protect other countrys… let alone our own country if we dont put money into warfare…. . your an idiot gtfo
Kind of hard to image terabytes getting away. At least we know it's not been done over modem. That must have eliminated at least some 3rd world coutnries as suspects.
I'm pretty sure alot of us have collected teras since 1997. It really not that hard.
The F35 is supposed to be the joint strike fighter which means it will be sold to pretty much every country that could buy it. Creating thousands of jobs inside the US and across the world most of which were initially lost since the US gov stopped the production of F22s. Since the US is an economic leader this project could help stimulate the world economy. Taking and using the information stolen will only plunge the world into greater economic turmoil. Stop hating on the US and put your negative sentiments where they are deserved.