UPDATED 09:29 EDT / MAY 29 2013

LIVE: U.S. Increasingly Worried About Chinese Gov’t in Hacking U.S. Military Networks

Updated with full video – see below

On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn more about how Chinese hackers reportedly compromised U.S. designs for more than two dozen weapons.

According to a report prepared for the Pentagon on Monday, designs for many of the nation’s most sensitive, advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers. The report claims that more than two dozen major weapons programs critical to the U.S. missile defenses and combat aircraft and ships were breached. The report was part of a previously undisclosed section of a confidential report prepared for Pentagon leaders by the Defense Science Board.

The Pentagon earlier this month highlighted its concerns to Congress, accusing China of using cyber espionage to modernize its military. The relationship between the U.S. and China has waned a bit recently as the Obama administration has escalated its warnings to the Chinese government to stop what Washington sees as rampant cyber­theft.

Joining us now to explain to us what type of weapons information was compromised is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto. (See the live broadcast, embed below ~ if you missed today’s topic, check our YouTube channel for archived clips.)

Some of the things we’ll be discussing with Casaretto include how the Chinese were able to gain access to this information, what the Chinese could do with this type of sensitive information, why it seems that China is the most active country when it comes to stealing intellectual property from U.S. companies, and whether or not the Chinese government conducts ­cyber-espionage.


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