http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/09/24/can-the-u-s-stop-chinese-hackers-qa-with-cyber-sleuth-austin-berglas/
By Josh Chin
The Wall Street Journal
Sep 24, 2015
Is there anything the U.S. can do to stop Chinese hackers from getting
into sensitive computer networks? The short answer, according to former
Federal Bureau of Investigation cyber sleuth Austin Berglas, is not
really.
It’s a question that looms large over Washington D.C. as it prepares to
welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit. Mr. Xi rolls into
town just a few months after Chinese hackers were fingered as the main
suspects in the worst-ever publicized breach of U.S. government computer
systems: the cybertheft of personal information on at least 21 million
government employees and contractors from the Office of Personnel
Management.
As head of the cyber branch in the FBI’s New York office, Mr. Berglas
spent years tracking and battling intrusions by state-sponsored hackers
into strategic U.S. networks. He recently jumped to the private sector,
taking up a position as senior managing director with cyber defense firm
K2 Intelligence. With new insight emerging into the Chinese military’s
role in hacking, China Real Time’s Josh Chin recently sat down with Mr.
Berglas to discuss how Chinese hackers work and whether a recent U.S.
threat of sanctions is likely to slow them down.
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