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China Will Not Stop April 4, 2011: Chinese Cyber War operatives continue their international hacking campaign, the latest victims being senior officials of the Australian government. This despite over five years of these attacks on governments worldwide. All major nations now know what China is up to, but no one can stop it. For example, four years ago, someone hacked into the computer networks of several German government ministries (Foreign, Economics and Research), as well as the office of the Chancellor ( Angela Merkel, the head of the government). Some 160 gigabytes of data was moved to computers in northern China. This revelation was leaked to the media while the Chancellor was in China, to discuss trade matters, and demand that China do more to stop the theft of German intellectual property. China denied any involvement. The recent Australian attack was also traced back to China. Typically, these Chinese attacks are carried out so that they would not be detected. But increasingly, the intrusions are detected, as are the thefts (often consisting of hundreds of gigabytes of data, which always seems to end up on a server in China). Naturally, the Chinese deny everything, but the victims, particularly when they are governments of major nations, continue to build a case that will prove all these hacks were <http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20110404.aspx> Chinese government sponsored operations. The first major hack of government computer networks took place back in the 1980s, when a gang of West German <http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20110404.aspx> hackers, hired by the Soviet secret police (KGB) were caught inside U.S. Department of Defense networks, stealing classified data. The U.S. is still the major target of organized hacking. In the last few years, the hacker activity has accelerated. Attacks against U.S. Department of Defense networks have increased each year for over a decade. There has been a lot more email based attacks recently. These are increasingly targeted at specific types of military of government users, or even individuals. In the last few years, there have been many more attempts to insert viruses, worms and <http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20110404.aspx> Trojan horse software on military systems. The attackers are looking for information, or secret control of, or at least access, to military systems. Some of the attacks have been massive and well organized, and seem to come from China. Five years ago, when the attacks became more widespread, major American targets like the National Defense University, the Naval War College, Fort Hood and several defense contractors were hit. Each of these cost $20-30 million to clean up after. Recent victims have also found the cleanup bill to be large, but not as expensive as all the lost data. [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/
