Richard Clarke: China has hacked every major US company

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/richard-clarke-china-has-hacked-every-major-us-company/11125

By Emil Protalinski
Zero Day
ZDNet
March 27, 2012

Summary: Cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke is warning the U.S. that 
its major companies are being regularly infiltrated by Chinese hackers 
employed by the Chinese government to steal R&D.

Richard Clarke, a former cybersecurity and cyberterrorism advisor for 
the White House, was a U.S. government employee for 30 years: between 
1973 and 2003. He worked during the times of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. 
Bush, Bill Clinton, and even George W. Bush. He may not be working under 
current U.S. president Barack Obama, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t 
have something to warning about. He says state-sanctioned Chinese 
hackers are stealing R&D from U.S. companies, threatening the long-term 
competitiveness of America. We’ve heard this before, but the way Clarke 
puts it makes the situation look even more dire.

“I’m about to say something that people think is an exaggeration, but I 
think the evidence is pretty strong,” Clarke said during an interview 
with the Smithsonian. “Every major company in the United States has 
already been penetrated by China. My greatest fear is that, rather than 
having a cyber-Pearl Harbor event, we will instead have this death of a 
thousand cuts. Where we lose our competitiveness by having all of our 
research and development stolen by the Chinese. And we never really see 
the single event that makes us do something about it. That it’s always 
just below our pain threshold. That company after company in the United 
States spends millions, hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of 
dollars on R&D and that information goes free to China….After a while 
you can’t compete.”

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