China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

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.

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