FP Sit-Rep Spet 24, 2015
By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley
You’ve got a friend in me. On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, two security firms claim to have uncovered proof that a Chinese military unit involved in cyber espionage has teamed up with a grassroots hacker collective in southern China. Together, the two have managed to break into sensitive computer networks in countries competing with China for control over the South China Sea.
But the best part of the story is how the researchers made the connection. Turns out, it was partly a simple case of laziness with a username that allowed cybersecurity firms ThreatConnect and Defense Group Inc. to link the army and the Naikon hacker group. The trail led to a man named Ge Xing, a member of People’s Liberation Army Unit 78020 who apparently used the username greensky27 all over the Web, including for work, creating a virtual map for researchers to trace the hacks.
The dominoes fall. What’s one more disturbing cyber story? FP’s Elias Groll writes that the hack of the Office of Personnel Management first revealed in June was much bigger than originally reported. The OPM said Wednesday that suspected Chinese hackers made off with 5.6 million sets of fingerprints, a much higher number than the 1.1 million that had previously been estimated. While there isn’t much that anyone can do with fingerprints just yet, an OPM spokesman offered the chilling assessment that this “could change over time as technology evolves.”
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I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, with a Doctor of Law in the US, attended the master program at the National School of Administration of Việt Nam, and graduated from Sài Gòn University Law School. I aso studied philosophy at the School of Letters in Sài Gòn.
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I have worked as an anti-trust attorney for Federal Trade Commission and a litigator for a fortune-100 telecom company in Washington DC.
I have taught law courses for legal professionals in Việt Nam and still counsel VN government agencies on legal matters.
I have founded and managed businesses for me and my family, both law and non-law.
I have published many articles on national newspapers and radio stations in Việt Nam.
In 1989 I was one of the founding members of US-VN Trade Council, working to re-establish US-VN relationship.
Since the early 90's, I have established and managed VNFORUM and VNBIZ forum on VN-related matters; these forums are the subject of a PhD thesis by Dr. Caroline Valverde at UC-Berkeley and her book Transnationalizing Viet Nam.
I translate poetry and my translation of "A Request at Đồng Lộc Cemetery" is now engraved on a stone memorial at Đồng Lộc National Shrine in VN.
I study and teach the Bible and Buddhism. In 2009 I founded and still manage dotchuoinon.com on positive thinking and two other blogs on Buddhism.
In 2015 a group of friends and I founded website CVD - Conversations on Vietnam Development (cvdvn.net).
I study the art of leadership with many friends who are religious, business and government leaders from many countries.
I have written these books, published by Phu Nu Publishing House in Hanoi:
"Positive Thinking to Change Your Life", in Vietnamese (TƯ DUY TÍCH CỰC Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống) (Oct. 2011)
"10 Core Values for Success" (10 Giá trị cốt lõi của thành công) (Dec. 2013)
"Live a Life Worth Living" (Sống Một Cuộc Đời Đáng Sống) (Oct. 2023)
I practice Jiu Jitsu and Tai Chi for health, and play guitar as a hobby, usually accompanying my wife Trần Lê Túy Phượng, aka singer Linh Phượng.
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