Chinese Take Out: It's stealing industrial secrets by taking over corporate computers using spyware.

Forbes ^ | Nathan Vardi

[CodeRouge]

The Middle Kingdom isn't just trying to buy American companies on the open market. It's also stealing industrial secrets by taking over corporate computers. China's swipe at such U.S. assets as Unocal's oil wells and Maytag's trade name are very much in view. Less obvious: a far more insidious grab for industrial secrets. This electronic theft is taking place with the tacit okay, or at least the nonintervention, of the Beijing government.

The latest attack is a so-called Trojan horse, code used to swipe information from compromised PCs, named Myfip. It first emerged last August in the theft of PDF documents. At least 11 other versions of Myfip were widely circulated from September to April, seeking to gather sensitive documents, like CAD/CAM files used to store, say, mechanical designs, electronic circuit board schematics and layouts. Myfip is sent via spam and can navigate a corporate network once a user clicks on the attachment.

[CodeRouge]

China is stealing, again. We are watching, like always?

[maineman]

Damn It!!! No more take-out for me.

[flashbunny]

can't do anything about it, might upset them.

same reason we can't secure our borders. Might upset somebody.

I don't think our founding fathers could have conceived what a pantywaisted country this has become.

[aynrandfreak]

Between this and the trouble they caused Jack Bauer, I'm sick of these guys!

[Skeeve14]

They are a nice communist country. They just need time to catch up with us. Allow them some time to develop their copyright laws and with human rights treatments. Even though they can put a man in space lets continue to give them foreign aid to help develop their country.

[CasearianDaoist]

You should not be so sarcastic about our Chinese comrades.

(Keep it up and I will report you.)

[glorgau]

Myfip
Systems affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

[CodeRouge]

Mm, sounds like it would be safer to use SUN Solaris or Linux. Wondering if AutoCAD can support those non-MS systems.

[RATkiller]

There seems to be a pattern here that even a US President or trade representative could discover. In order to do some business in China, Micro$oft opened up the code of Windows and IE to the Chinese Government, of course under strict assurances that it would protect M$'s intellectual property, I believe. I wonder if that source code somehow got into the wrong hands so they could pore over it for weaknesses. Yep, I just wonder.

[backhoe]

Crosslinked:

Browser Wars, take two

[CodeRouge]

I wonder if that source code somehow got into the wrong hands so they could pore over it for weaknesses.

I think you have a very good point here. And don't forget CISCO. Virtually everything online goes through their stuff.

[raybbr]

ping

[ninenot]

China is The Largest Marketplace In The Universe. PRChinese coolies will boost US GNP by umpty-zillions of dollars in the Next Ten Years.

Don't you know???

[eamadia]

Mm, sounds like it would be safer to use SUN Solaris or Linux. Wondering if AutoCAD can support those non-MS systems.

a substitute for AutoCAD, LinuxCAD (it's not a gorgeous website). it supports DWG format. you can run linuxcad on Linux or Solaris. autodesk does not have a linux or unix version of autocad.