World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis' (by the CHINESE)

Foxnews ^ | 10/10/2008 | Foxnews

[gleeaikin]

Link to Berlusconi and closing world markets:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102354/posts

[hotshu]

Thanks for the link!

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Wonder who maintains World Bank's systems?

[SaltyJoe]

Not many would put it beyond the attacks coming from China, but if you’re criminal and very computer saavy, wouldn’t you want to pin a crime on a victim’s enemy? It would certainly draw the heat away from you.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Let’s hear it for outsourcing US jobs and unlimited H2B visas. After US citizens are virtually purged from engineering and science, we can hire cheap foreign workers to perform the most sensitive tasks.

Doesn’t that make you sleep better?

[sarasota]

And the Chinese wouldn’t “let” Fonterra withdraw melamine contaminated milk powder from the market before the Olympics and not for several weeks afterward. Thousands of babies and children sick and four deaths. The world has turned upside down.

[ThePythonicCow]

We have to do some major boycotts on them.

Cheer up - we're working on it. It's called a recession, which will result in a dramatic decline in imports from China.

[norraad]

I've seen almost no cargo ships lately on the river I live by.

I've heard different reasons for this, but the fact remains.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Hope nobody has money in WB..."

It's not the kind of bank one has money in. It's an NGO sort of thing.

"The World Bank is an internationally supported bank that provides financial and technical assistance[1] to developing countries for development programs (e.g. bridges, roads, schools, etc.) with the stated goal of reducing poverty." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_bank

[metmom]

ping

[lentulusgracchus]

It’s obvious that the entire western world and our country are under siege. We are wide open to attack from all sides.

The ops centers that are hosting this activity need to suffer some spectacular and regrettably fatal accidents. Like maybe a high-tension power line dropping on something electrically connected to the host building. Something like that.

Or maybe just a large and brilliant flash of light, of unknown origin.

[Khepri]

At what point can we say these attacks are an act of war?

Never happen, but it should.

[JACKRUSSELL]

A ping list dedicated to exposing the quality, safety and security issues of anything “Made in China”.


Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.

(This can be a high volume ping list.)

[SIDENET]

Yoo are racist!

(lol)

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping; post. Very interesting.

[Calpernia]

Related, thanks for the link NW_AZ!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/10/organized_crime_doctors_chip_and_pin_machines/
Organized crime tampers with European card swipe devices

Customer data beamed overseas

By Austin Modine • Get more from this author

Posted in Crime, 10th October 2008 21:21 GMT

Hundreds of card swipers used by retail stores across Europe are believed to have been tampered by organized crime syndicates in China and Pakistan, according to US National Counterintelligence Executive Joel Brenner.

Brenner told The Daily Telegraph that criminals have doctored chip and PIN machines either during manufacturing in China or shortly after leaving the production line in order to send shopper credit card account details overseas. The devices were then expertly resealed and exported to Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Belgium.

“Previously only a nation state’s intelligence service would have been capable of pulling off this type of operation,” Brenner told the publication. “It’s scary.”

Hundreds of devices have been copying credit and debit card details over the past nine months and sending the data by way of mobile phone networks to tech-savvy criminals in Lahore, Pakistan,

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[Calpernia]

Maybe. He is cute; but I don’t want the seriousness lost:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350794/posts