Komputer Pentagon diserang dan lumpuh, "The PLA has demonstrated the ability to
conduct attacks that disable our system".
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US concedes danger of cyber-attack
By Andrew Ward in Sydney, Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and,Stephen Fidler
in London
Published: September 6 2007 03:00 |
Last updated: September 6 2007 03:00
George W. Bush yesterday acknowledged that the US was vulnerable to cyber-
attack and said he might raise the issue with Chinese President Hu Jintao when
they meet in Sydney today.
The US president's comments followed a report in the Financial Times this week
that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had allegedly hacked into the
Pentagon's computer network. "I'm very aware that a lot of our systems are
vulnerable to cyber-attack from a variety of places," said Mr Bush, who is in
Sydney for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit.
Mr Bush said he "may" raise the matter with countries the US suspected of cyber
warfare, without acknowledging China's role in the Pentagon incident.
China has strongly denied that its military was behind the cyber-attack on the
US defence department, which was detailed to the FT by current and former US
officials. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the allegations were
"absurd" and reflected "cold war thinking".
Mr Bush said it was important that countries respected each other's "systems
and knowledge base". "That's what we expect from people with whom we trade," he
said.
The disclosures about the Pentagon hacking, which closed parts of its
unclassified computer system in June to deal with the attacks, followed reports
in German newspapers of the insertion of spyware - again allegedly by the PLA -
into German government computers at the Chancellery and three ministries.
British government officials have spoken of similar attacks. In private
comments last year to a meeting of senior business figures and others, Eliza
Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5, said the UK government had been the
target of significant hacking attacks from China that were suspected to have
been state sponsored.
The Guardian yesterday reported that parliamentand the Foreign Office had been
attacked by hackers.
Security officials have said the targets have not been limited to the
government but have also taken in private companies, including in the financial
sector.
The Chinese embassy in London did not respond to an FT enquiry yesterday.
Some experts have pointed out that while China has come under scrutiny over the
PLA hacking allegations, the US has developed, and is widely believed to use,
the same capabilities.
The Pentagon is concerned because it recognises that cyberspace is one domain
where the Chinese can challenge US dominance. China lags behind the US in the
more traditional battlespaces of air and sea. Chinese military strategy has
placed emphasis on space and cyberspace as key domains in modern wars where
information that flows over networks is central in battle.
"If we look at what the Chinese are doing, assuming that the PLA is behind it,
then we are seeing aspects of the PLA . . operationalising what they have
talked about in theory," said Dean Chang, an expert on Chinese security issues
at the Center for Naval Analyses.
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