Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 21, @09:25AM

from the we're-still-number-one-at-this dept.
SecurityThe MilitaryUnited States
suraj.sun writes"Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks. Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft"

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