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Re:Mandiant Exposes APT1, One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units by snowwrestler on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @02:30PM (#5246487)
U.S. companies do receive significant support from their government, typically in the form of FBI support for the investigation and mitigation of intrusions.

The really sophisticated stuff is on the military side, which is a black box. But who is to say that the NSA or DOD is not actively engaged in trying to analyze or degrade the capabilities of Chinese APTs? It's possible someone in the NSA is reading the Mandiant report right now thinking "not bad, they got almost half of what we know."

The recent Obama executive order should help get more of such info into the hands of companies.

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Re:Mandiant Exposes APT1, One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units by greedo on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @09:13PM (#5248553)
From what I've heard, the US govt has basically decided that the best defense is a good offense. You don't hear of any of their successes because a) the US doesn't want to let it out, and b) the Chinese aren't especially fond of losing face.
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