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Suspected Chinese spies hack Aussie PM's emails: Report Melbourne, Mar 29, (PTI): Suspected Chinese spies have hacked the parliamentary computers of Australian Premier Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, Defence Minister Stephen Smith, and seven other Cabinet Ministers, a media report said. US intelligence officials tipped off the Australian government about the espionage which occurred over more than a month, starting in February, Sydney's 'The Daily Telegraph' quoted sources as saying. Four separate government sources confirmed that they had been told Chinese intelligence agencies were among a list of foreign hackers that are "under suspicion", the Australian newspaper said. A probe is now said to be under way into the cyber attack which may have occurred on Australian Parliament House email network used primarily for MPs' correspondence and not on the more secure departmental network which Ministers use for sensitive communications, it said. An intelligence brief to the Australian government by the CIA and the FBI is believed to have revealed that hackers had been accessing the computers of a number of Ministers. The Attorney General Robert McClelland would neither confirm nor deny the cyber-spy incident. "It's the long standing practice of successive Australian governments not to comment on the operations of security and intelligence agencies. Australia's security and intelligence agencies, as a matter of course, work closely and co-operatively with their international counterparts... "The Australian government takes the issue of cyber security very seriously and is constantly strengthening cyber security measures. Australia has in place a range of measures including the Cyber Security Operations Centre within Defence Signals Directorate and a dedicated cyber investigations unit," McClelland told the newspaper. <http://www.deccanherald.com/content/149745/suspected-chinese-spies-hack-aus sie.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
