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Comment by OGinparadise | Hacker News Reader

This is pretty cool, they hacked the hacker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p7FqSav6Ho

That the Chinese are doing this, we knew from many corp and military espionage stories.

I wonder about Mandiant. The Chinese will probably target target them with all their might, but then they will get a lot of work in USA. Going public must've been a tough decision.

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I should imagine going public wasn't too difficult- it was already known that they were hired by the New York Times to investigate hacking attempts against them.

I suspect, as you state, they'll get a good amount of business out of it. And it's a lot easier for them to stay secure than the average company.

All of what you say is true, but then there was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBGary Security is probably a relative thing, depending on how much they really want to get you.

I should imagine going public wasn't too difficult- it was already known that they were hired by the New York Times to investigate hacking attempts against them.

Investigate and release a public report are two different things. Looks like they gambled that they could win a lot of new business, given that this Chinese hacking is prevalent and their study makes that point even clearer.

Cool video. Does this really mean Mandiant was recording what was going on on the hacker's machine in China, or is that a "reconstruction of the events"?

Having read the report, it reads as a commercial for Mandiant's services. That's the exact reason for them going public.

Mandiant (and other similar companies) are already under significant fire from foreign hackers. The defense industrial base has pretty significant Advanced Persistent Threat identification, tracking, and mitigating capabilities.

They have a 'security department' within their company, which is a security/analyst company. They have Richard Bejtlich running their network defense and policy.

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