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China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:17:22 -0400
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/28/technology/government_hackers/ (This is part four of a week-long series on the ecosystem of cybercrime) On April 8, 2010, traffic to about 15% of the world's websites was rerouted to China. State-owned Internet company China Telecom tricked relays from around the world into routing traffic through its servers for about 18 minutes. It isn't publicly known what happened to that traffic when it passed through China. But a report filed late last year by Congress' U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said the hijacked traffic could easily have been captured, censored, or even replaced with other data without anyone's knowledge. Those scenarios were especially worrying to the U.S. government since the incident affected traffic to and from ".gov" and ".mil" sites, including those for the Senate, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Defense Department, NASA, and Commerce Department. Websites for Dell (DELL, Fortune 500), Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500), Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) and IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) were also affected. It wasn't the first time -- or the last -- that suspicious cyber activity has been traced back to China. ... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging Jeffrey Walton (Jul 28)
- Re: China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging Dave Paris (Jul 28)
- Re: China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging Jeff Kell (Jul 28)
- Re: China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging Jeffrey Walton (Jul 28)
- Re: China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging Dave Paris (Jul 28)