Barry puts his foot down on Chinese hacking

Jinping was so terrified of Barry the minute he returned to China he put an immediate ban on all U.S. hacking!

Seriously, do you think Barry, in-between the egg rolls and Wonton soup, had the balls to even bring up…"hacking". I doubt it. How do you sit down to eat with someone who you know unequivocally is sabotaging the country? I see Barry as just another head of cattle taken to the slaughterhouse. Jinping's got to be thinking...WOW..they even entertain us while we're fucking them. 

Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall if it were Trump?

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Meanwhile away from the Pomp and Circumstance of Stupidity... at least someone is trying to put a stop to it.

A pair of cyber security sleuths discovered the identity of a Chinese military hacker.

Attribution is difficult in cyberspace. But it's not impossible.

A report this week from the threat intelligence company ThreatConnect and research firm Defense Group, Inc., shows just how effective good old-fashioned detective work can be. The two paired up, issuing a convincing report that allegedly identifies a Chinese military hacker by face and name: one Mr. Ge Xing, a Thai politics expert and member of Unit 78020 of the People's Liberation Army of China, a reconnaissance division.

Fortune spoke to Wade Baker, VP of strategy and analytics at ThreatConnect who worked on the report, a couple of days ago. Initially, his team was tipped off to Ge's alleged illicit activities when they discovered a connection between his social media user names and a malicious domain linked to a hacking campaign targeting China's neighbors in the South China Sea. Each operated under the same alias: "greensky27."

Following that lead, Baker's team continued to dig, looking for more clues, more evidence that might implicate the possible, albeit unassuming, hacker. Eventually, they struck upon a damning correlation: Whenever Ge absconded on vacation, the hacking campaign's infrastructure went dark. "That's what sealed the deal," Baker says. (You can read about that bit in chapter four of the report.)

Ge is, of course, a person. He is, as the Wall Street Journal describes him, "a new father and avid bicyclist who drives a white Volkswagen Golf sedan and occasionally criticizes the government." There are pictures of him online. He has a family, a job, hobbies. He is not just another faceless cyberthief.

"What I find extremely interesting is that you have this man and machine blend that shows you both sides of the adversary," Baker said of the report. "A lot of people forget that there's a person writing that malware, a person controlling that command and control infrastructure."

We should not forget this point. The so-called cyber world does not exist in a vacuum. It has very real, human operatives. Someone pulls the strings.

Barry puts his foot down on Chinese hacking