U.S. Intelligence: China Attempts collapse Pentagon Computers

An intelligence official from Siber Command U.S. accuses China has always tried to sabotage the computer network at the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). For the handle, there was a suggestion improve cyber command authority in the U.S. military hierarchy.

"Their efforts to undermine the Department of Defense ongoing," said Rear Admiral Samuel Cox, the director of intelligence at the U.S. Command Siber, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency in Washington DC on Thursday. He also revealed more increased China's efforts to steal confidential corporate America.

Suspicion Cox was in line with the report of the Executive Office of the National counterintelligence year. Office states that "the perpetrators from China are the most diligent in economic espionage."

"It's growing rapidly and continues to increase," said Cox. China had always suspected of trying to steal the secrets of the Pentagon.

However, when asked whether there was a secret network of computers which successfully penetrated America, Cox simply replied, "I can not answer that." When asked to confirm, the Chinese Embassy in Washington could not immediately provide a response. Earlier, Chinese officials have always denied the U.S. allegations.

Siber U.S. Command responsible for protecting the Pentagon's computer networks. The agency was formed two years ago in anticipation of increasing attacks on the U.S. in cyberspace (cyber space). Since its inception, they work under the Strategic Command, which designs nuclear operations and the U.S. space.

Cox then proposed that Siber Command authorized higher to face attacks from foreign hackers more effectively. To align with the agency's Strategic Command and eight other major military institutions under the Pentagon. The proposal was brought to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the President, and will be decided later this year.

Head of the National Security Agency, who led the U.S. Siber Command, Gen. Keith Alexander, July mengungkapkann that a number of foreign countries, independent hackers and criminal organizations responsible for the increase in cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure from 2009 to 2011. The number of attacks increased 17-fold.