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DailyTech - Lockheed Martin Working to Better Deal With Cyber Security Matters

Lockheed Martin Working to Better Deal With Cyber Security Matters
Michael Barkoviak - March 2, 2010 7:36 AM

 


 
Lockheed Martin will rely on itself more than federal government to keep internal secrets locked up


LockheedMartinplans to find new methods to predict and prevent wide-scale cyber attacks carried out to compromise classified information and passwords. Lockheed, which is the No. 1 contractor used by the federal government, also said it plans to open its second intelligence center specializing in internal security and precaution.

"It is a cat-and mouse game between the two sides," said Eric Hutchins, Lockheed cyber intelligence specialist, during an interview with Reuters.  "They're constantly trying to develop new ways of attacking us and we're constantly trying to develop new ways of defending us."

The company has been a popular target for cyberattacksfrom organized cyber crime rings in Eastern Europe and China.  The government has worked with private contractors to help try and find methods that can prevent most damage.  

Lockheed will rely more on itself instead of the government to protectdata -- and has billions of dollars on the line.  The company's F-35 Lightning II -- the next-generation fighter several nations are interested in -- would be worth a lot of money for someone who could learn more about the aircraft.  

The company also works in the aerospace industry, and has numerous other classified documents it hopes to protect. 

President Obama recently picked a cyber czar to deal specifically with cyber threats, as nations and organized groups better prepare their cyber arsenals.  

Former U.S. government officials last month defended a simulated cyberattack against U.S. targets -- and although everything went smoothly, it's still unknown how prepared the U.S. is for a real cyber threat.

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msnbc.com technology & science - Lockheed Martin says it thwarted 'tenacious' cyber



My guess is it was China.

 

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Or bored kids who know about network weaknesses. But is it me or does it seem like there has been a big spike in hacking attempts lately? Maybe its just the Sony hack that's in the back of my mind.

 

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wolffchad



Your comment reminded me of the 80's movie Wargames with Mathew Broderick.
Your right though. There does seems to be a lot of hacking recently. I got several notices from companies i do business with that data was hacked but no important info was stolen. To name a few companies that use a third party to store account information that were hacked are Charles Schwab, Citibank, Melon, and Chase. One company gave me free credit monitoring due to the hack.

 

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  Geowil

Smarty, that may be the case, maybe Anonymous has riled up some of the other hacking groups.
Personally the smart money is on China though for this one, didn't they do something like this last year around the time when Google called them out?

 

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  Jessie-1513106

We were moving to a paperless society. Does this mean we will end up back to storing every secret file in a filing cabinet again?

 

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Chris-795881



Well, Sony was a target because it was a response to the suing of people making home brew OSes for the PS3. However, I don't think Lock Mart was targeted for the same reason. They do have a large cyberwarfare unit so this may have been related?

 

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  Greg-871776

It would be terrible timing if China is the culprit given the high levels of anti Chinese setiment floating around the USA. Furthermore it will put even more political pressure on Congress and the President to do something about China. Not a good idea for China but still was most likely China.

 

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  Don-714119

What anti-Chinese sentiment? I still think Wal-mart is one of the biggest bait in switches in human history, starts out as "all products manufactured in the US", hook up millions of people shopping there while expanding, then switches to selling mostly Chinese made products and throws up stores there.
KFC and McD's loves China I also I believe.
From everything I can see, the major corporations love China and have a firmly established business going there, and love having shipped most of our production jobs to it.
Makes the big corporations and their investors happy, and moves manufacturing out of the US.
What kind of patriot are you to question the large corporations becoing larger globally at the expense of American jobs :)
*sarcasm mode off*

 

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BXURZ

From everything I can see, the major corporations love China and have a firmly established business going there, and love having shipped most of our production jobs to it.

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It's 'Extra-territoriality' in reverse, we are becoming the 'Sick Man' of North America.

  Greg-871776

LOL you may think that these companies are in love with China but many in the Business communities are raising complaints about China over access. This could be the match that blows the powder keg who knows only time will tell. Lockheed Martin is a big company I do not think they will take to kindly to having their tech stolen especially by the Chinese. There will be consequences for who ever is responsible.

 

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Sean-984657



It's gotta be script kiddies, China already emptied that bin of what it held five years ago in a multi-terabyte download.

 

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  WhoCares-1176197

China, Russia or North Korea, most certainly. But guess what, we do it everyday as well. Part of the game.

 

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pat c-1901476



Yup, problem is they do it better.

 

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  Frank Morton-2536216

Banks, wall street and big corporations along with their government love slave labor. They don't give a damn about China, America or anyone else. Money is all that moves them and they will do anything for more. This government has done everything possible to help these motherless pigs.
When the ceo of Disney made 600 million and God knows what in bonuses, he had children in Haiti working for 12 cents an hour. There is nothing they want do. People are just tools to be used and trashed. They are a disgrace to America and the human race. If we don't force our government to control public owned corporations they will destroy America. Simply forcing them to pay our minimum wages wherever the go would bring back many jobs. It would also help to have labor represented on their boards. Many obvious things could be done but nothing will.
 

 

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