The United States Military now is looking into the possibility that someone might have
compromised the computer systems and caused at least one of two U.S. Navy destroyer collisions
with merchant vessels that occurred in recent months.
The most recent being the USS John McCain which is named after the grandfather and father
of the now "Democratic" Senator of Arizona, John McCain.
Naval investigators are scrambling to determine the causes of the mishaps, but haven't made
much progress.
They have now turned their investigation towards cyberspace.
Investigators are starting to believe that hackers infiltrated the computer systems of
the USS John S. McCain ahead of the collision on August 21.
That would pretty much explain how something so easily avoidable could have happened.
US Navy Suspects USS McCain Collision Was Caused By Cyber Attack
Tragedy struck the USS John S. McCain on Monday, when the destroyer collided with a merchant
ship off the coast of Singapore, leaving 10 sailors missing and five injured.
The US Navy is still struggling to find all of the remains of the missing sailors and
has ordered an operational pause for all naval fleets around the world as investigators try
to figure out exactly why this terrible accident occurred.
Among the possible causes that are being looked into, one has a raised a few eyebrows.
Over the summer there have been two accidental collisions involving the 7th fleet, and a
total of 4 similar incidents this year.
This has led some Navy officials to suspect that a cyber attack may have been responsible
for the crash, as well as other recent Naval accidents.
The Navy has not ruled out an intentional action behind the latest deadly collision
between a Navy destroyer and a merchant ship, the chief of naval operations told reporters
Monday.
"That's is certainly something we are giving full consideration to but we have no
indication that that's the case—yet," Adm. John Richardson, the CNO, said at the
Pentagon.
"But we're looking at every possibility, so we're not leaving anything to chance,"
he said.
Asked if that includes the possibility the electronic defenses on the guided missile
destroyer USS John S. McCain were hacked in a cyber attack, Richardson said investigators
will look into all possible causes.
"We'll take a look at all of that, as we did with the Fitzgerald," the four-star
admiral said, referring to another Navy warship collision with a merchant ship in June near
Japan.
So far the Navy has made it clear that there currently isn't any evidence that the neither
USS McCain, nor any other naval vessel, has suffered from a cyber attack.
However, there are quite a few top notch cyber security experts who think that all of these
collisions probably have something in common.
"There's something more than just human error going on because there would have been
a lot of humans to be checks and balances," Jeff Stutzman, an ex-information warfare specialist
in the Navy, who now works at a cyber threat intelligence company, told McClatchyDC.
"When you are going through the Strait of Malacca, you can't tell me that a Navy destroyer
doesn't have a full navigation team going with full lookouts on every wing and extra
people on radar," he said.
Itay Glick, the founder of cyber security firm Votiro, told news.com.au that the possibility
of cyber interference was the first thing that came to his mind when he heard about
the incident.
"I don't believe in coincidence," Glick told the website.
"Both USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald were part of the 7th Fleet, there is a relationship
between these two events and there may be a connection," he added.
The only other question that remains is, if these collisions were caused by cyber attacks,
who is responsible?
One likely culprit seems to be China.
For years the Chinese government has complained about the US Navy's presence in the South
China Sea, which they claim as their territorial waters.
In fact, following the USS McCain's accident, the Global Times, which is effectively a mouthpiece
of the government, claimed that Chinese citizens were celebrating the collision.
It's also important to consider the fact that many US Naval vessels are riddled with
counterfeit parts from China.
A Senate led investigation in 2012 found that our ships contained over a million counterfeit
parts, mostly of Chinese origin.
Obviously, this raises the possibility that the Chinese government may have used black
markets to secretly funnel parts to the US Navy, which contain backdoors that are easily
exploitable.
But perhaps what's most telling, is how a state-run Chinese media outlet responded
to the USS McCain collision, by suggesting that the US Navy has become a dangerous presence
for commercial shipping in the South China Sea.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. navy's latest collision at sea, the fourth in its Pacific
fleet this year, shows it is becoming an increasing risk to shipping in Asia despite its claims
of helping to protect freedom of navigation, an official Chinese newspaper said…
…The state-run China Daily said in an editorial on Tuesday that people will wonder why such
a sophisticated navy keeps having these problems.
"The investigations into the latest collision will take time to reach their conclusions,
but there is no denying the fact that the increased activities by U.S. warships in Asia-Pacific
since Washington initiated its rebalancing to the region are making them a growing risk
to commercial shipping," it said.
There's no proof that China has been hacking our ships, but the possibility can't be
ruled out.
After this report started trickling down, Fox News briefly reported that the vast majority
of ships operating in the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, where the two destroyers have been
involved in fatal collisions since June, weren't certified to conduct basic operations at sea
relating to combat maneuvers.
Eight of the eleven ships in the Seventh Fleet and their crew members also weren't currently
certified by the U.S. Naval authorities to conduct mobility, seamanship, or basic steering
of the ships.
So all this could have just been human error due to lack of training and certification.
Whatever the issue, we will find out in due time.
If it was lack of training, no doubt heads will role.
But more importantly, we need to take a closer look as to what was going on during the Obama
Administration since all this started happening under his watch.
And since everyone knew that he cared more about taking care of deadbeats than our own
military, We can be sure the final report won't be in his favor.
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