UK: Chinese Hackers Also 'Raid Whitehall Computers'

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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This is getting interesting.

Via The Telegraph.co.uk.

[snip]

Hackers with links to China's military were last night accused of waging a
long-term campaign to penetrate the computer networks of British government
departments.

A day after China denied that it was the hidden hand behind hackers who
breached Pentagon security networks in the US, ''cyberwarriors'' acting at
the behest of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were blamed for breaking
into networks at the Foreign Office and other departments.

The ''virtual'' attacks on the Pentagon were described yesterday by experts
as "a wake-up call" to those in charge of safeguarding the security of
British governmental secrets. So-called ''Cyber attacks'' on governmental
networks in the UK by Chinese hackers are thought to have been going on for
at least four years, according to a report in The Guardian.

The campaign was responsible for an incident last year that shut down part
of the House of Commons computer system, according to Whitehall officials.

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More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/05/nhack105.xm
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- - ferg

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