Het lijkt dat china bezig is geweest enkele servers van Het US Defense Department te hacken, zo bericht securityfocus!
We've all seen in the news that the US Defense Department's mail servers were hacked earlier this year in June apparently by China. Just last week German news magazine Der Spiegel alleged that the Chinese had hacked into German government computers.
Now, the Guardian newspaper has accused the Chinese government of penetrating systems belonging to the United Kingdom to steal sensitive data.
British government agencies have, according to the report, been targeted by Chinese hackers for years. Attacks, which may have originated from Chinese army circles, have been directed at targets including the network at the British Foreign Office. According to the newspaper, government sources have stated that other major government departments may also have been affected. The Ministry of Defence has refused to comment on whether it too has been affected. Security and defence officials are coy about what they know of specific attacks. However, they say several Whitehall departments have fallen victim to China's cyberwarriors. One expert described it as a "constant ongoing problem".
The Chinese military has demonstrated its ability to carry out attacks which disable US government systems, according to information provided by a former Pentagon employee on the results of investigations aimed at conclusively identifying the origin of the attacks. According to The Guardian, US security agencies have assigned the growing number of Chinese cyber attacks the codename "Titan Rain". The recent infection of German government computers with trojans can also allegedly be traced back to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
refs:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/04/news.internet
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/95515
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11485
We've all seen in the news that the US Defense Department's mail servers were hacked earlier this year in June apparently by China. Just last week German news magazine Der Spiegel alleged that the Chinese had hacked into German government computers.
Now, the Guardian newspaper has accused the Chinese government of penetrating systems belonging to the United Kingdom to steal sensitive data.
British government agencies have, according to the report, been targeted by Chinese hackers for years. Attacks, which may have originated from Chinese army circles, have been directed at targets including the network at the British Foreign Office. According to the newspaper, government sources have stated that other major government departments may also have been affected. The Ministry of Defence has refused to comment on whether it too has been affected. Security and defence officials are coy about what they know of specific attacks. However, they say several Whitehall departments have fallen victim to China's cyberwarriors. One expert described it as a "constant ongoing problem".
The Chinese military has demonstrated its ability to carry out attacks which disable US government systems, according to information provided by a former Pentagon employee on the results of investigations aimed at conclusively identifying the origin of the attacks. According to The Guardian, US security agencies have assigned the growing number of Chinese cyber attacks the codename "Titan Rain". The recent infection of German government computers with trojans can also allegedly be traced back to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
refs:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/04/news.internet
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/95515
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11485
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