The breach at the Office of Personnel Management:
columnist Olaf Szewczyk calls it the online
equivalent of
the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Americans
Suffer 'Pearl Harbor Attack' of Cyber Cold War (Polityka, Poland)
"It's
natural that the Americans are shocked. Seeing themselves as a traditional
military power, they reflectively assume that the same hierarchy of influence would
apply in cyberspace. Unfortunately, considering the scale of the potential
damage, the attack on the database of the Office of Personnel Management can reasonably
be compared to disastrous attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. At the
time, scarcely anyone imagined that the disdained Japanese could pull off such
an effective strike."
By Olaf Szewczyk
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka
June 17, 2015
Poland
- Polityka - Original Article (Polish)
Since even the government
of the United States cannot defend itself against attack by online thieves, who
can guarantee the protection of our bank passwords, correspondence and ID
numbers?
according
to The Washington Post , in
December last year. The Americans realized only last April that the attack had
occurred. The thieves - and the Americans are nearly certain they acted on orders
of the Chinese government - may have stolen the personal data of at least 4
million federal government employees. Among them are Social Security numbers, which, like Polish PESEL
Experts say it was the same perpetrator who had stolen personal
data from health insurance companies Premera and
Anthem. Premera admitted that the data of 11 million
customers may have been compromised, while Anthem had the Social Security
numbers of 80 million American citizens in its database.
The scale of the infiltration makes the hair stand up on
one's neck, particularly since this isn't the first penetrating blow against databases
of the US government – although it is by far the biggest in the history of the cyber
Cold War ever revealed.
The great Chinese hacker offensive against government databases
began as far back as the beginning of 2014, and with varying degrees of success
they have attacked a number of targets, among them the network of the Office of
Personnel Management. Fresh in the minds of the Americans is the recent
successful breach of the White
House e-mail network by Russian hackers - their most spectacular booty
being Barack Obama’s private [unclassified] correspondence.
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It's natural that the Americans are shocked. Seeing
themselves as a traditional military power, they reflectively assume that the
same hierarchy of influence would apply in cyberspace. Unfortunately,
considering the scale of the potential damage, the attack on the database of
the Office of Personnel Management can reasonably be compared to disastrous
attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. At the time, scarcely anyone imagined
that the disdained Japanese could pull off such an effective strike.
The ineffectiveness of the firewalls of U.S. government
agencies should not, however, come as a surprise. Internet infiltration is
today the norm rather than the exception, and large networks are often easier
to breach than small ones: there are too many gates left ajar. The deciding
factor is human error. A click on an attachment containing a Trojan horse sent
by a spy masquerading as a supervisor, using infected storage media or even a
naïve betrayal of key information in a telephone conversation, a technique first
used in the 1990s by famed hacker Kevin Mitnick .
Of course, professional hackers can also identify software
bugs and slip unnoticed through such open gates to break into secured systems.
Paweł Dawidek
of IT firm Wheel Systems , which specializes
in IT system security, points out several common software error sources. One of
them, which was until recently the dominant approach
to operating system design, focuses on the speed with which tasks are completed
– an area where security hasn't been a top priority.
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War and Data Security: 'Everyone is Threatened' (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany)
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"When security mechanisms were finally introduced,"
says Dawidek , "the goal was to achieve a separation
of system users themselves rather than to separate and isolate programs executed
by a single user. For this reason, the most popular operating system model is a
large kernel with the highest level of privileges - although from a
practical point of view unnecessarily high - for programs run by users."
That model was created with the goal of allowing many users to
utilize the same operating system. Today, however, one user is more and more often
running different operating systems simultaneously, for example on a computer
and a smart phone. This means that, for security reasons, it is necessary to
separate not so much individual users, but individual programs. The change has
been going on for some time, but a capable hacker can still find a number of
holes in security mechanisms.
The failure of entire projects - sometimes very expensive
projects - can hinge on just a few lines of code mistakenly left inside a
program or disregarded as unimportant. A good example of such a calamity was
the Ariane-5 rocket disaster
[video below]. Its construction took 10 years and cost $7 billion. The rocket
disintegrated in less than a minute after launch. Its turned
out that part of its software had been carried over from the old Ariane-4. The
control system, referring to a function absent in the Ariane-5, reported an
error right after launch. The confused navigation computer gave the engines an instruction
to execute a sudden turn of about 20 degrees. After that, no adjustment by the
back-up system could prevent the catastrophe.
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It's worth recalling this lesson: The European Space Agency
undoubtedly employs brilliant scientists, so theoretically, with such expenditures
and such a level of professionalism, everything should have been repeatedly
checked. Yet typically, human error was decisive. An investigation revealed that
assumptions about the Ariane-4 operating software weren't checked carefully enough
and the pre-flight tests and simulations weren't performed thoroughly enough.
It is naïve to assume that the rank of an institution, the
level of experts employed and the high stakes involved, guarantee
the reliability of software. The effectiveness of hacker attacks on the world’s
most guarded databases, a frequent occurrence today, should not be regarded as
sensational news, but another confirmation of the general rule of the weakest
link.
Are we, too, threatened? Yes, but we can reduce the risks.
We should store our critical data in digital form as infrequently as possible, not share
it with others lightly, be wary while on online and when checking our e-mail, use
the best possible IT security measures so as to make it more difficult for online
thieves to gain access.
Even then though, in the digital world, where infiltration
is so prevalent and easy, we shall never be entirely safe again.
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Don't Believe the Hype Over NSA's Quantum Computer
NSA Comment Doesn't Deny
Spying on U.S. Lawmakers
EFF Lawyer Kurt
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Snowden on How GCHQ
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Agency Offered to Share
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Guardian Editor Rusbridger Testifies on Snowden Files
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Guardian, U.K.: New York Times Defends
Guardian's Snowden Leaks
Die Zeit, Germany: Germany Warns
U.S. Facilities Could be
Attacked Over NSA Anger
Okaz, Saudi Arabia: NSA Crisis Exposes American Dream as Counterfeit
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Izvestia, Russia: Moscow Tongues Wag Over 'Downfall' of U.S. Ambassador McFaul
de Volkskrant, Netherlands: Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Dutch 'Laundering' of NSA-Acquired Data
Al Madina, Saudi Arabia: Spying Ruins 'Sanctity' of 'Holy' War on Terror
Folha, Brazil: Shaming the NSA is First Step to Ending 'State of Nature'
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China Daily, China: American 'Anti-Terror' Spies Have No Place in China
NZZ, Switzerland: NSA and Germany: a 'Highly Toxic Outrage Cocktail'
Ryukyo Shimpo, Japan: Japan Must Safeguard Data from 'Superpower in Decline'
Japan Times, Japan: NSA asked Japan to Tap Regionwide Fiber-Optic Cables in 2011
La Jornada, Mexico: Human Rights, the NSA, and U.S. Moral Decline
Le Monde, France: After PRISM, E.U. Must Safeguard 'Emerging Global Consciousness'
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Le Monde, France: 'How the NSA Spies on the French'
Le Monde, France: Fighting 'Big Brother'
Le Monde, France: NSA Wiretapped
French Diplomats in America
Le Monde, France: French Phone
Networks in NSA Crosshairs'
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Ambassador Over Claim
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Over NSA Surveillance Claims
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Huanqiu, China: Letter By Vladimir Putin Exposes 'Exceptional' American Inequality
de Volkskrant, The Netherlands: Putin's Note to Americans a
Guilty Pleasure for World
Epoca, Brazil: America's 'Undemocratic' Surveillance is More Invasive than China's
Guardian, U.K.: Committee to Protect Journalists Issues Scathing
Report on Obama
Guardian, U.K.: NSA Reform Under
Threat by 'Business-as-Usual Brigade' - Wyden
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Folha, Brazil: NSA's Great Power Challenge to Brazil
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Opera Mundi, Brazil: Outraged Evo Morales Wants Obama Tried for 'Crimes Against Humanity'
Pagina Siete, Bolivia: U.S. Fears, Not Evil, Motivate Desperate Search for Snowden
El Nacional, Bolivia: Snowden: South America Must Take Stand Against Old Europe
El Universal, Venezuela: Maduro Uses Snowden Asylum to Distract Venezuelan People
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Bienvenido to Venezuela, Double Agent Snowden!
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Folha, Brazil: Dilma Postpones Her U.S. State Visit; Saves Face for Both Sides
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Carta Maior, Brazil: Invasions of Privacy and the Tools of Terror Maintenance
O Globo, Brazil: Adjusting to Our 'Brave New World' of Liberty
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Guardian, U.K.: Edward Snowden 'Living Incognito in Russia'
BBC News, U.K.: Reporter Glenn Greenwald to Testify at Brazil Spy Probe
Der Spiegel, Germany: iSpy: How America's NSA
Accesses Smartphone Data
Estadao, Brazil: Explaining John Kerry's Shellacking in Brazil
Cuba Debate, Cuba: Castro: 'Who Was Paid to Lie' about Snowden Being Allowed in Cuba?
Jornal Do Brasil, Brazil: Chancellor Tells Kerry: 'Terminate' Spying on Brazilians
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Der Spiegel, Germany: Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the U.N.
Der Spiegel, Germany: Merkel Rival Calls
for Suspension of Trade Talks
Telegraph, U.K.: NSA Employees
Spied on their Lovers Using
Eavesdropping Program
Reuters, U.K.:
Close Cameron Aides Asked Paper to Destroy Snowden Data
People's Daily, China:
America Must Come to the Table on Surveillance
Guardian, U.K.:
Innocent have Nothing to Fear? After Miranda, We Know Where that Leads
Guardian, U.K.:
Groklaw Legal Site Shuts Over
Fears of NSA E-Mail Snooping
Guardian, U.K.:
'Sending a Message': What U.S. and U.K. are Attempting to Do
Guardian, U.K.:
U.S. Senators Warn NSA Privacy
Breaches Just 'Tip of the Iceberg'
Der Spiegel, Germany:
Merkel and the NSA: The Scandal That Will Not Die
Guardian, U.K.: Dangers All Reporters Now Face: David Miranda and Journalism
Guardian, U.K.: David Miranda's Detention a 'Betrayal
of Trust and Principle'
Guardian, U.K.: 'Attempt at Intimidation
Will Result in More Disclosures'
Savon Sanomat, Finland: Better For Finland that Obama Goes to Sweden
Yezhednevniy Zhurnal, Russia: Snowden: Kremlin Tool for Reducing U.S. Web Dominance
Huanqiu, China: 'United Global Front' Defeats America in Snowden Affair
Die Tageszeitung, Germany: Manning Trial: Superficial Justice to Save American Face
El Pais, Spain: Manning Verdict a Warning to Future 'Heroes of Transparency'
Izvestia, Russia:
Turning Mr. Snowden into a
Tool of Russian 'Soft Power'
De Morgan, Belgium:
U.S.-E.U. Meeting on NSA Surveillance a 'Sham'
Der Spiegel: Three PRISMS?
Parliament Seeks Clarity in
NSA Espionage Scandal
ABC, Spain: Fear of Vladivostok Escape for Snowden Drives U.S. Threats Against Venezuela Moskovskij Komsomolets, Russia: Snowden: Putin's Perfect 'Anti-Magnitisky' Weapon Gazeta, Russia: Chapman and Snowden in: 'The Ghost of Sheremetyevo' Izvestia, Russia: South vs. North: Snowden's Place in History is Assured Kommersant, Russia: Snowden's Presence May Scuttle Obama's Visit to Russia
Izvestia, Russia: 'Servile Europeans' Inflict Huge Insult on Bolivians
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Le Monde, France: French Big Brother is Watching You!
Guardian, U.K.: The NSA's Indiscriminate
Mass Spying on Brazilians
Le Monde, France: French Political Class Holds 'Outrage Contest' Over NSA Spying
DNA, France: Espionage ... From Washington, With Love
Liberation, France: The NSA 'Panopticon'
Der Standard, Austria: Mass NSA Surveillance Implies 'Bizarre Presumption of Guilt'
Guardian,U.K.: NSA/GCHQ
Metadata Reassurances are
'Breathtakingly Cynical'
Observer, U.K.: U.S. Attempts
to Block Edward Snowden
'Bolsters' Case for Asylum
Der Tagesspiegel, Germany: NSA: Merkel Ignores the Nightmare of 'Stasi Squared'
Der Spiegel: What's All the Fuss
About U.S. Spying?
Guardian, U.K.: Britain Blocks Crucial Espionage Talks between U.S. and Europe
Guardian, U.K.: France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style Methods'
Guardian, U.K.: Venezuela and Nicaragua offer asylum to Edward Snowden
Elsevier, The Netherlands: Snowden's Revelations are of 'No Benefit to Society'
Der Spiegel, Germany: NSA Spying on Germany: How
Much Did Angela Merkel Know?
Der Spiegel, Germany Bolivia Irate
Over Forced Landing
Der Spiegel, Germany: Germany
Rejects Asylum for Snowden
News, Switzerland: Humanity's Cyber-Hypocrisy Overload
El Comercio, Ecuador: Wanting to Keep U.S. Trade Privileges is Not Treason!
Der Spiegel, Germany: Spying 'Out of Control': EU Official Questions Trade Negotiations
Der Spiegel, Germany: Growing Alarm: German Prosecutors To Review Allegations of U.S. Spying
Guardian, U.K.: New NSA Leaks Show how U.S. is Bugging its European Allies
Der Spiegel, Germany: Partner and Target: NSA Snoops on 500 Million German Data Connections
Diario de Noticias, Portugal: America 'Summons World' to Renewed Cold War
Guardian, U.K.: Ecuador Rejects U.S.
Trade Pact to Thwart
Snowden 'Blackmail'
Guardian, U.K: Glenn Greenwald
on Personal Side of Taking
on NSA - Personal Smears Guardian, U.K: How NSA
Continues to Harvest
Your Online Data
Guardian, U.K: Edward Snowden's
Next Step: Live Q&A
Gazeta, Russia: Why Russia, China, and Others,
Love 'Poking America in the Eye'
Guardian, U.K.: Snowden Affair Revives
Politics of the Cold War
Guardian, U.K.: 'History will be Kind'
to Edward Snowden
Guardian, U.K.: Latin America is ready to defy the US over Snowden and other issues
Guardian, U.K.: Putin Confirms Snowden in Moscow Airport; No Extradition
The New York Times, U.S.: China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart
People's Daily, China: U.S. Internet Hypocrisy Creates Global Suspicion
Global Times, China: Internet 'Muckraking Frenzy' Damaging China's Global Interests Huanqiu, China: 'Demented' Hacking Charges Betray U.S. Scheme for Cyber Domination
Guardian, U.K.: Snowden Leaves
Hong Kong for Moscow:
Seeks Asylum in Ecuador Financial Times, U.K.: Snowden Fallout Impacts China and Russia Russia Today, Russia: VIDEO: Former MI5 Agent Judges Snowden 'Canny' Folha, Brazil: Trust in the State Inadequate
as a Pretext for NSA's Spying Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, France: Edward Snowden is Not the Issue El Pais, Spain: Powerless, Europe Must
Nevertheless Stand Up
to NSA Spying Program Global Times, China: Demonizing China Will Backfire on Americans Global Times, China: Extraditing Snowden
Would Be a Mistake Xinhua, China: 'Idealistic' Edward
Snowden Should be
Welcomed by China Mediapart, France: 'Autonomous Machines':
World Reawakens to
U.S. Web Dominance Guardian, U.K.: Britain's GCHQ Intercepted
Data from Foreign
Politicians at G20 Summits
Le Monde, France: French Lawmakers Scramble Over News of NSA Surveillance
Le Temps, Switzerland: Last Resort for Confronting 'Electronic Big Brother'
The Frontier Post, Pakistan: On Global Spying
for Selfish National Interest
Mediapart, France: The NSA is Spying on Us! What a Surprise!
El Espectador, Colombia: Please Consider Yourself Watched!
Le Monde, France: NSA Surveillance Storm Gathers Over Cloud Market
Folha, Brazil: Being 'Carioca' Helped Glenn Greenwald Break NSA Surveillance Story
Sol, Portugal: WikiLeaks and Facebook: What Came Before Will Soon Be Rubble
Guardian, U.K.: World Leaders Seek Answers on NSA Data Collection Programs
Guardian, U.K.: Artist Ai Weiwei: The U.S. is 'Behaving Like China'
Russia Today, Russia: Putin: Government Surveillance 'Should Not Break the Law'
Guardian, U.K.: Russia Offers to Consider Edward Snowden Asylum Request
Handelsblatt, Germany: Obama's Data Nightmare is Europe's
FAZ, Germany: Protect Us from Terrorism ... and Government Snooping
SCMP, Hong Kong: What Will Hong Kong do with Snowden? ... The World is Watching
SCMP, Hong Kong: Why Hong Kong? Chinese Wonder if Edward
Snowden is in Wrong Place
Suedostschweiz, Switzerland: Exposed: Spy Powers that Obama Shouldn't Use
Le Temps, Switzerland: Exploring the Limits of Sino-U.S. Compromise
Business Day, South Africa: Obama Sets 'Dubious
Example' on Freedom
Economist, U.K.: The Reason We Fear
Broad Surveillance
Guardian, U.K.: The NSA's
Secret Tool to Track
Global Surveillance Data
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany: On Torture, Kremlin Should Lead by Example!
Folha, Brazil: U.S. Schools Brazil on Confronting Stain of Torture
Polityka, Poland:
Poland's CIA Black Site and Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Polityka, Poland: Kwasniewski: 'Sadist' CIA Should Be Shuttered; Denies Knowledge of Torture
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Former President Kwasniewski Admits Approving CIA Prisons
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Itself Must Investigate Secret CIA Prisons
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Beware: American Colossus Changes Course Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Former President Kwasniewski Admits Approving CIA Prisons
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Itself Must Investigate Secret CIA Prisons
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Beware: American Colossus Changes Course
News, Switzerland: In Praise of the U.S. Senate's CIA Torture Report
L'Orient Le Jour, Lebanon: 'Success' of CIA Torture: Raises Anti-Americanism to its 'Zenith'
Khaleej Times, U.A.E.: Tales of Torture: A 'Betrayal of the American Revolution'
U.N., Intl. Terr., Geneva: 'Those Behind CIA 'Criminal Conspiracy' Must Face Penalties': U.N.
El Pais, Spain: CIA Torture Report: Now is Obama's Chance to Shutter Guantanamo
NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands: No Leniency for CIA Torture
Le Monde, France: Report Confirms CIA Ran Secret Prisons in Poland, Romania
Le Monde, France: Governments Across Europe Investigate CIA 'Renditions' La Jornada, Mexico: Loughner - Carriles: Two Terrorists, One U.S. Double Standard La Stampa, Italy: Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions
Publico, Spain: Torture Charges Filed Against Bush Legal Team; Judge Garzon Handles Case
Die Welt, Germany: A Disgrace to the West: CIA Doctors Helped With Torture
Financial Times Deutschland, Germany: Obama: Inviting the Next Torture Scandal
Die Tageszeitung, Germany: America and Torture: 'Just Following Orders'
Hurriyet, Turkey: Dick Cheney's Torture Logic is 'Deeply Offensive'
La Repubblica, Italy: With Robert Seldon Lady, America 'Humiliates' Italy Gazzetta del Sud, Italy: Former CIA Station Chief Held in Panama Over Italy 'Rendition' La Stampa, Italy: Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions Corriere Della Serra, Italy: CIA Agents Convicted of Kidnapping; Italian Officials Walk Free Corriere Della Serra, Italy: Ex-Intelligence Chief, CIA Agents Indicted for Kidnapping
Le Monde Diplomatique, France: The Law Will Catch Up With CIA's European 'Accomplices'
Izvestia, Russia: 'Servile Europeans' Inflict Huge Insult on Bolivians
Corriere Della Serra, Italy: U.S. Must Fess Up to CIA Kidnapping on Italian Soil
La Repubblica, Italy: Italy's Spymasters Arrested for Aiding CIA Kidnappings
Digital Journal, Canada: U.S. Double Standard - Snowden, Seldon Lady and Jose Carriles
Guardian Unlimited, U.K.:
Criminal Justice Rendered Impotent
Publico, Spain: Torture Charges Filed Against Bush Legal Team
Corriere Della Sera, Italy: Italy Says CIA Guilty of Abduction, Issues Europe-Wide Arrest Warrants
Corriere Della Sera, Italy: U.S. Must Fess Up to CIA Kidnapping on Italian Soil
Tageblatt, Luxembourg: Europe Investigator Into CIA Activity Comes Under Criticism
Le Monde, France:
Governments Across Europe Investigate CIA 'Renditions'
Le Monde Diplomatique, France: Law Will Catch Up With CIA's European 'Accomplices'
La Repubblica, Italy: Italy's Spymasters Arrested for Aiding CIA Kidnappings
Corriere Della Sera, Italy: Ex-Intelligence Chief, CIA Agents Indicted for Kidnapping
Corriere Della Sera, Italy: U.S. Must Fess Up to CIA Kidnapping on Italian Soil
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