{"id":47444,"date":"2019-04-09T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=47444"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:09:28","slug":"chinese-hackers-target-research-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/chinese-hackers-target-research-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers target Research Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Admin: \u201cPlease be aware we had another phishing attempt on our servers, do not respond to e-mails in the following format\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

–I get phishing\/hacking e-mails on my institution\u2019s account about every week or so.<\/em><\/p>\n

Like most folks, I get many \u201cphishing\u201d attempts on my e-mail. Some are quite good, but many have a weakness which exposes them. English is ridiculously complicated language, you see, and a non-native speaker, even one very fluent, often reveals himself as such with a phrase that no American would ever use. For example, you can buy \u201chot water cylinders<\/a>\u201d (legit site, but clearly not American despite the English language), but in America we just call them \u201cwater heaters,\u201d even though, yeah, they\u2019re usually cylindrical.<\/p>\n

Earlier I feel like I came off as an apologist for China, in addressing hysteria over that country\u2019s establishing little fiefdoms on some of our campuses. To be more clear, those fiefdoms aren\u2019t the real issue, so allow me to cover something far more sinister being done by China, though pretty much common to every country on the planet:<\/p>\n

U.S. universities urged to step up cybersecurity protections after report reveals Chinese hackers attempted to steal military secrets from dozens of institutions<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Before moving on to the issues in the article, I want to point out that while most of our campuses are drowning in ideology and corruption we still have universities, particularly \u201cresearch universities,\u201d where we investigate far more relevant things than the number of possible human genders, where we invent things far more useful than new personal pronouns like \u201cxhe\u201d or \u201cxhim.\u201d<\/p>\n

This vastly more important research doesn\u2019t make the news, because it\u2019s not supposed to be common knowledge. It\u2019s sad that this knowledge must be classified as \u201cmilitary secrets,\u201d but the fact remains, other countries, including China, would like to have that knowledge as well.<\/p>\n

Chinese hackers are ramping up their efforts to steal military research secrets from U.S. universities, new cybersecurity intelligence suggests.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Hawaii, Pennsylvania State University, Duke University and the University of Washington are among 27 institutions in the U.S., Canada and Southeast Asia to be targeted by Chinese hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, want to know where to go to get involved in real research that will matter? Well, you can bet if China is interested in it, it\u2019s probably worth something, so the serious student should look carefully at the list helpfully supplied above, to get some ideas of real graduate schools (where the research is done) worth applying to. Do carefully note how few of those schools have time for race riots\u2026<\/p>\n

The primary target, this time, was undersea technology. Our oceans represent a vast source of resources, and the country best able to control\/explore\/exploit the seas has been the dominant country on the planet for several centuries now, it\u2019s reasonable to think the undersea will be the next big frontier.<\/p>\n

One school is absent from the list:<\/p>\n

One wonders why Harvard wasn’t on the list of targets. Maybe it has something to do with this?<\/em><\/p>\n

“The fact that Bo Guagua was a couple months from his Harvard degree has sparked interest in the number of so-called princelings\u2014the offspring of powerful Chinese Communist Party officials\u2014attending elite U.S. universities… But there are people far more important than the children of Chinese party leaders attending Harvard and other elite U.S. universities: Chinese leaders themselves… Carefully vetted officials\u2014a selection of some of the regime\u2019s rising stars\u2014were sent abroad to study in specially designed programs at some of the world\u2019s finest universities. The first crop was sent to Harvard…<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly an interesting theory, and I rather believe it to be true. We have an analogue here in the U.S. Most of our higher education system is corrupted or outright fraudulent, but each state still generally keeps one school, the \u201cflagship university\u201d mostly legitimate. Why? Because the political leaders need a place to send their kids. They can\u2019t all go to Harvard, after all\u2026<\/p>\n

Again, a hidden takeaway: if you\u2019re looking for a legitimate university to send your kids, see where the political leaders of your state send their kids. It\u2019s not a sure thing mind you, but it\u2019ll increase the odds of getting an education.<\/p>\n

China is not the first country to target U.S. universities with a coordinated cybercampaign. Last year nine Iranian hackers were charged for their role in a phishing scam that ran from 2013 to 2017 and attempted to steal the passwords of hundreds of thousands of professors.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, no kidding. While I don\u2019t want to underestimate the legitimacy of this kind of threat, there\u2019s a slant to this article, expressed in two ways.<\/p>\n

The first way is from the above, the \u201cnine Iranian hackers.\u201d Yeah, sure, but that\u2019s not Iran, those are hackers who happen to be from Iran<\/em>. I get hit with phishing attempts from foreigners on a very regular basis, you don\u2019t need a government to do that sort of thing. Why didn\u2019t the article go ahead and mention the Nigerian scam as well? I mean, at least a dozen people have died there, leaving me tens of millions of dollars, after all.<\/p>\n

The second? What moron thinks the United States government doesn\u2019t do much of the same, at least when we can\u2019t get their Secretary of State to simply just sell the secrets off her private e-mail server (like many countries did with us)? I respect our government is going to do that sort of thing, and thus we should not be so quick to anger when other countries do unto us as we do to them. We should be quick to guard our secrets, of course.<\/p>\n

It is “just inevitable” that research universities will be targets, Wheeler said. “The open culture of universities make us an enduring target.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeez, these people. I\u2019m sorry, criminals and thieves have always been a big part of society, and while universities are certainly targeted by them, so is every business, and I daresay every human being on the planet with anything worth taking.<\/p>\n

That said, yeah, we need to safeguard things we value\u2026but no harm in letting them take all they can from our converged campuses.<\/p>\n

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