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Official Chinese documentary reveals military cyber-attacks against US
The Daily Caller ^ | 8/22/11 | Tina Nguyen

Posted on 08/22/2011 10:58:13 AM PDT by Nachum

Officially, China does not wage acts of cyber-warfare against the United States. Unofficially, mounting evidence points to Chinese entities attacking multiple entities in the U.S., from government agencies to private corporations and nonprofits.

Now comes a more tangible, damning piece of evidence. Buried in an official military documentary, a six-second clip aired on Chinese TV shows a custom-built computer program launching a cyber-attack from a compromised U.S. IP address. (RELATED TECH: Federal push for cloud technology faces skepticism)

The Epoch Times broke the story early this morning, revealing that a Chinese military university uses software to launch attacks against websites affiliated with the Falun Gong spiritual discipline, which are known dissidents of the People’s Republic of China. In order to do so, they compromised servers owned by the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) to launch the attack.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinese; documentary; official; reveals

1 posted on 08/22/2011 10:58:23 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

not sure who to trust here..Epoch Times or Red Chinese.


2 posted on 08/22/2011 11:00:42 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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Buried in an official military documentary, a six-second clip aired on Chinese TV shows a custom-built computer program launching a cyber-attack from a compromised U.S. IP address. (RELATED TECH: Federal push for cloud technology faces skepticism)

I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!

3 posted on 08/22/2011 12:31:55 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Nachum
Buried in an official military documentary, a six-second clip aired on Chinese TV shows a custom-built computer program launching a cyber-attack from a compromised U.S. IP address. (RELATED TECH: Federal push for cloud technology faces skepticism)

I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!

4 posted on 08/22/2011 12:54:57 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Nachum

*snort* I can say THAT again, huh?


5 posted on 08/22/2011 1:20:30 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

:)


6 posted on 08/22/2011 1:37:34 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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