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Chinese hackers caught trying to steal secrets of our new stealth fighter as tens of thousands of cyber attacks are launched on jet manufacturer every week :

Chinese cyber spies have been caught trying to steal the secrets of Britain’s most sophisticated combat jet, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
A covert unit within the Chinese Army has been using highly sophisticated cyber weapons in a desperate attempt to acquire classified information about the stealthy Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Manufacturer Lockheed Martin claims it is thwarting tens of thousands of computer attacks every week to keep secure secrets about the jet – due to be in service with the Royal Navy and RAF by 2018.

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Most of the UK geeks fighting the attacks are graduates of Coventry University’s forensic computing masters degree.
Dr Siraj Shaikh, senior lecturer in cyber security at Coventry, said his students were particularly attractive to the defence industry because of their skills in ‘ethical hacking’ and ‘penetration prevention’ techniques.
Dr Shaikh said: ‘We know that sophisticated “exfiltration cyber weapons” are being used against companies like Lockheed Martin.
‘These types of cyber weapons are used by countries or organisations attempting to steal secret information. These attacks are extremely sophisticated and are nearly always state-sponsored.’
A spokesman for Lockheed Martin said: ‘We recognise the significance of the F-35 programme and the fact that it – along with many of our other programmes – faces constant threats from adversaries around the world.
‘We regularly take actions to increase the security of our systems and to protect our employee, customer and programme data.’

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Readers' comments:
Stopping these attacks is meant to be the job of GCHQ at Cheltenham.With it's 5,600 staff and 297 external IT Contractors (which alone cost it £43 million a year),you would think they could do a better job than they are doing.But there again,they are unaccountable for the main part,bureaucratic in the extreme,and have proved impossible to control by Security Committees in Westminster.And this is our biggest National Security operation.Here is their mission statement (don't laugh) - - "GCHQ provides intelligence, protects information and informs relevant UK policy to keep our society safe and successful in the Internet age" - - you're laughing !! I knew you all would !!
- BROADSWORD , Ryeford, United Kingdom, 12/5/2013 07:30

I'm pretty sure that our military organisations could develop a "double agent" virus which would flow back to China during these attacks and devastate their systems, hmmm maybe they have.?
- BLUEBIKE , London, 12/5/2013 07:31

This is really an a act of war.
- Alex mason , Swindonsl, 12/5/2013 07:30

RED ALERT
We must be well prepared against Chinese cyber-attacks from its individuals, hacking groups, and army (PLA and so) !!

Stay prepared against any kind of espionage & cyber-or-physical attacks from the outside world !

Do we have our national Cyber-Defense Force ?!

GCHQ (UK) We need to have our own GCHQ !!

May God and Buddha bless peoples of Mongolia forever, staying far away and free from Poverty, Hunger, AIDS, H7N9, Drugs, Crime, Military and Cyber Attacks, and any other Bad Harmful things.

Mongolia should be - Prosperity, Scientific and Technological Development, Well-preserved Nature, Highly-educated, Strong, Healthy People...

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