中國網路攻擊美國國防部通行卡◎Military.com（2012.01.24）雲程譯

【Comment】It is not a joke that a hacker could hijack votes counting.  How can you be sure that the result of 2012 election is true?

OK，民主選舉的開票被駭客挾持，已經不是笑話了。在驗證前，你如何認定2012的選票數據為真？

網路安全公司已經發現一隻電腦病毒可使用軍人的網路安全卡來駭進政府網路。怎麼辦到的呢？一家加州網路安全公司的負責Alien Vault公司實驗室經理Jaime Blasco說：軍人會收到一封看似官方發出的PDF檔案電子郵件，但其實PDF檔中夾帶能記錄使用者鍵盤輸入過程的病毒。然後這隻病毒會收集此人的有關進入政府電腦的一般通行卡（Common Access Card）個人辨識號碼。

「駭客可以很簡單的透過這隻病毒進入政府電腦並且竊取任何資料，而這位士兵根本無從察覺。」Blasco經理在西班牙的辦公室中接受電話訪問時這樣表示。

Blasco經理說，他懷疑這網路公及來自中國，因為病毒碼中帶有中國字母。

「我們開始追蹤它，…我們發現只有中國在用的軟體，」Blasco經理說「我們可以99%確認攻擊來自中國。雖然不是百分之百確認。」

China-based Cyber Attack Targets DoD Access Cards◎Military.com（2012.01.24）

http://www.military.com/news/article/china-suspected-in-attacks-on-dod-computer-cards.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

Cyber security firms have discovered a computer virus that uses servicemembers’ network security cards to hack into government networks.

How does it work? servicemembers receive an email with an official-looking PDF file connected to the virus that allows it to record keystrokes, said Jaime Blasco, lab manager for Alien Vault, a California-based cyber security firm. The virus then collects a service member’s personal identification number associated with a Common Access Card when he logs into a government computer.

 “The hackers can get in pretty easily with this virus and do whatever they want on a government computer while a soldier just works on his computer,” Blasco said in a phone interview from his office in Spain.

Blasco said he suspects the cyber attack originates from China because of the Chinese characters found within the virus’ coding.

“Since we started tracing it … we found software that’s only really used in China,” Blasco said. “We’re 99 percent sure this attack is coming from China. Not 100 percent sure, but we’re pretty sure.”