Daily News Article - April 21, 2009
1. What information did computer spies (believed to be from the Chinese government) get from the U.S. military?
2. How could the information from the fighter-jet program help those who stole it? (see para. 2 and 23)
3. What information was also stolen by spies, as previously reported by the Wall Street Journal?
4. Which details of the latest security breach by spies could not be learned? Why not? (see para. 5 and 20)
5. Why weren't the spies able to access the most sensitive information on U.S. defense?
6. How has President Obama reacted to the cyber thefts?
7. How did the spies gain access to the military networks?
8. Why is it so difficult to fight online attacks like these? - what has the Pentagon done in the past year to end this problem?
9. Why do investigators believe the spies to be Chinese?
10. U.S. counterintelligence chief Joel Brenner warned that because of these cyber thefts, potentially a "fighter pilot [could not] trust his radar." What do you think the Pentagon should do about the computer spying?