Titan Rain

Shawn Carpenter and the inside story of Titan Rain
Richard Stiennon
Chief Research Analyst
IT-Harvest
Blog: ThreatChaos.com
twitter.com/stiennon

Blog: www.ThreatChaos.com
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Agenda China and the RMA Shawn Carpenter Repercussions Past is prologue

China Revolution in Military Affairs

Sun Szu on spies “ Only a brilliant ruler or a wise general who can use the highly intelligent for espionage is sure of great success.”

Allen Dulles on Sun Tzu “ It is no wonder that Sun Tzu's Book is a favorite of Mao Tse-Tung and is required reading For Chinese Communist tacticians” -A.W. Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence

A Chinese Communist Tactician “ Sun Tzu is a grand strategist without parallel in history” - Chai Yuqui, Nanjing Army Command Academy, Speaking at 6 th annual international conference on Sun Tzu and the Art of War, 2004, Beijing

Chinese Thinking Wang Qingsong, Modern Military-Use High Technology, 1993 Zhu Youwen, Feng Yi,and Xu Dechi, Information War Under High Tech Conditions1994 Li Qingshan, New Military Revolution and High Tech War, 1995 Wang Pufeng, InformationWarfare and the Revolution in Military Affairs, Beijing: 1995; Zhu Xiaoli and Zhao Xiaozhuo, The United States and Russia in the New Military Revolution,1996; Li Qingshan, New Military Revolution and High Tech War, 1995 Dai Shenglong and Shen Fuzhen, Information Warfare and Information Security Strategy, 1996 Shen Weiguang, On New War 1997

Decoding The Virtual Dragon “ Network confrontation technology — intercepting, utilizing, corrupting, and damaging the enemy’s information and using false information, viruses, and other means to sabotage normal information system functions through computer networks.” -General Xu Xiaoyan, the former head of the Communications Department of the Chinese General Staff. 2004

Thomas Makes a Point “ If Xu’s suggestions were accepted, then one might expect to see more active reconnaissance and intelligence activities on the part of the PLA(as seems to be occurring!)” That exclamation point is Thomas’s. It refers to Shawn Carpenter and Titan Rain

Shawn Carpenter Cyber Warrior

Introducing Shawn Carpenter

One Good Thing About IPv4 A source IP address from an attack on Lockheed Martin is noticed. “ I had accessed a Chinese server that was involved in the compromises. And during that access I discovered a file on that server entitled 1.txt. That file contained an internal port scan or an internal scan of Fort Dix military installation.” -Shawn Carpenter Deposition

Backhacking . "I backhacked into a computer system and found evidence that perhaps hundreds of defense contractors had been compromised," Carpenter testified. He determined that breaches occurred at Fort Dix, the Redstone Arsenal, the Defense Contract Management Agency and the World Bank, and that the hacking was coming from South Korea. -Albuquerque Journal

Sandia's Response "We don't care about any of this. We only care about Sandia computers. Stop what you're doing. Stop whatever you are doing." Shawn's immediate supervisor

Shawn works with Military Counter Intelligence The summer of 2004 Shawn works with CI to uncover sources of attack

Shawn becomes a confidential informant for FBI Initial meeting with FBI October, 2004 Trade craft: Meeting in the stacks of the University Be careful when working with geeks!

All's Well That Ends Well. NOT

Chinese Cyber Espionage Continues Northrup Grumman United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission report. 11-1-09

Aftermath Past is Prologue

Ghost Net, Google, Oil and Gas
Pentagon email compromise, 2007
Ghostnet report published by SecDev March 2009
Google Hacked December 2009
Oil and gas commercial attacks 2009-10
US Secretary of States goes on record
China denies

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