[this is a fine kettle of fish....any linkers with additional info as to how this could have happened?]
Chinese spies could have been inside computer network for up to year: reports Published: April 28, 2014 - 9:01AM Chinese spies may have been inside Australian parliamentary computer network for up to a year and seen documents and emails that reveal the political, professional and social links across the political world, according to a report. The Australian Financial Review <http://www.afr.com/p/technology/chinese_spies_may_have_read_all_sBngugTM3JvSXFkcjgo4cN>reports that sources with knowlege of the breach, in which Chinese intelligence agencies that penetrated Australia's parliamentary computer network in 2011, say they agencies obtained remote system administrator access, which "effectively gave them control of it". In March 2011, The Australian newspaper and other media outlets reported that China was suspected of accessing, for more than a month, the email system used by federal MPs, their advisers, electorate staff and parliamentary employees. The perpetrators accessed several thousand emails, reports said. Senior sources said the breach was much more serious. Australian intelligence reached the "absolutely clear conclusion" that Chinese intelligence was responsible and informed their political masters the identities of the intruders. The intelligence services briefed the parliamentary committee that oversees security matters while it was in progress, sources said, and the network was shut down several times while analysts from the Australian Signals Directorate patched it. "It was like an open-cut mine," said one participant. "They had access to everything." China got access to all emails, contact databases and other documents stored on Parliament's computers. A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Canberra declined to comment. Administration of parliament's computer systems is the responsibility of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, and president of the Senate John Hogg, whose spokespeople declined to comment. The attorney-general at the time, Robert McClelland, and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, also declined to comment. This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/chinese-spies-could-have-been-inside-computer-network-for-up-to-year-reports-20140428-zr0kz.html Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
