Clancy as Prophet

Tom Clancy's new book out Threat Vector focuses on a Red Chinese cyberwar group that not only hacks the U.S. for commercial and military secrets, but can and does go on the offense and take over those assets in advance of Chinese military operations. Clancy has always had a good pipeline into the U.S. military and black ops community and now comes an article that reads like the story line from his book. 

The C/net article reports that a Chinese Army backed unit of hackers in a 12-story building in Shanghai is the origin for most of the high level hacking and cyberwar efforts in the world today. Everything from industrial secrets to building nuclear warheads has been hacked and this is probably the mothership for all of these high-level hacks. More importantly, you may remember when a number of regional power systems were hacked a few years ago. At the time, this was said to be the work of "criminals." Perhaps, but a better guess on the identity of the perps might be  the folks in Shanghai. www.pcworld.com/article/141564/article.html

The U.S. is ramping up its effort in the cyber defense area, which is a good thing if a little late - better late than never. This will be the nature of a modern Pearl Harbor if things get really ugly between us and the Chinese. 

news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57569983-83/chinese-army-linked-to-hacks-of-u.s-companies-agencies/