[cobalt-users] China security bulletin

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Most of you may have seen warning of this; this letter is further
confirmation of such. It's from the NATSC Security Officer at Lockheed
Martin. (I know an employee there.)

CarrieB

> FYI
>
> Cyber sleuths say Chinese computer hackers and crackers, who have
attacked
> U.S. Web sites in anger over the recent spy plane crisis, are
threatening
> a
> four-day barrage against U.S. Web sites beginning May 1,
International
> Workers Day.
>
> PRC have been actively mapping our external systems in recent
> weeks. So have sites Korea, Japan, and Taiwan...
>
> No doubt in this case, Information warfare is going to take on the
form of
> emotional attacks upon us by non governmental elements of their
> population,
> perhaps egged on by the civil political elements.
>
> We have no defense if large amounts of PRC citizens decide to hit
our
> firewalls with SYN floods, for example, the sheer hit to external
sources
> of
> bandwidth could be a major issue.