January 20, 2010

Chinese government suspected in Google attacks

Computer security experts said that Chinese hackers exploited a security flaw in Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer to launch the sophisticated attack on Google and as many as 34 other high-tech companies. Google said in a statement that the targets of the attack included several Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents. One security company, iDefense, said intelligence and defense contractors determined that the attacks originated from "a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof." (FULL STORY)
A Chinese flag near the Google logo in Beijing. AFP/File/Liu Jin
Beijing makes great leap forward in
cyber-warfare capabilities

The international furor over Google’s threatened China pullout — and revelations of cyber attacks against not only Google and Yahoo but a host of multinationals based in the PRC — spotlights Beijing's s capacity for Internet-based warfare. In the past fortnight, the Obama administration has also condemned alleged attempts by China-based hackers to steal military and technological information from a host of U.S. government agencies and companies.  (FULL STORY)
Research units under the police and MSS departments have even placed advertisements for “qualified and patriotic hackers.”
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