Posted on 01/31/2013 6:50:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts have expelled the attackers and kept them from breaking back in.
The timing of the attacks coincided with the reporting for a Times investigation, published online on Oct. 25, that found that the relatives of Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.
Security experts hired by The Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times’s network. They broke into the e-mail accounts of its Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, who wrote the reports on Mr. Wen’s relatives, and Jim Yardley, The Times’s South Asia bureau chief in India, who previously worked as bureau chief in Beijing.
“Computer security experts found no evidence that sensitive e-mails or files from the reporting of our articles about the Wen family were accessed, downloaded or copied,” said Jill Abramson, executive editor of The Times.
The hackers tried to cloak the source of the attacks on The Times by first penetrating computers at United States universities and routing the attacks through them, said computer security experts at Mandiant, the company hired by The Times. This matches the subterfuge used in many other attacks that Mandiant has tracked to China.
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gee that’s too bad.
The joke is on the Times. Actually the hackers were conservatives posing as Chinese.
CHINESE HACKING METHOD:
* First, install malware — malicious software — that enabled them to gain entry to any computer on The Times’s network.
* The malware is a specific strain associated with computer attacks originating in China. More evidence of the source, experts said, is that the attacks started from the same university computers used by the Chinese military to attack United States military contractors in the past.
* Steal the corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain access to the personal computers of employees, most of them outside The Times’s newsroom.
Gosh, everyone knows the New York Times is completely trustworthy, so this must be true. And they must be such a hard hitting investigative newspaper that the Chinese Military knows they needed to hack into their computers.
The Times must really be an important, relevant player!
OR,,a pathetic attempt to look like they matter.
No amount of security is going to help them if their employees keep clicking on the links in spam emails.
I wonder how many Nigerians have gotten rich off the NYT?
Well, at least they get the communist angle to the news that way. Pity they couldn’t hack Limbaugh and learn some facts instead!
If the ChiComs completely took over the NYT, how would we ba able to tell the difference?
Gathering data to blackmail the employees and the paper itself.
The Chinese are just trying to pick up more ideas about communist propaganda techniques.
If I could, I'd haxor the NYT myself :-)
No wonder every answer to the crossword puzzle was ‘Mao’.
A much more likely scenario. Why would China want to undermine one of the best sources of anti-American/anti-freedom/anti-common sense useful idiots?
Gee, I assumed that the Chinese automatically be given administrator rights as a courtesy from one group of leftists to another.
My sentiments exactly. I don't subscribe to the rag or attempt to address any validity and veracity to their reporting. How many reporters for the NYT have been found to fabricate stories? The ChiComs couldn't do any more damage to our country than what the NYT liberal and Democrat leaning reporters have done by themselves.
Apparently they are looking to hire Jason Blair.
Hasn’t anyone told the Chinese that they need to hack a reputable paper?
Could also be because they want to be the first to read the Krugman crap so they can pass it around and laugh!
Click whores making money off their adverts, yeah commies for supporting the slimes.
If the ChiComs completely took over the NYT, how would we ba able to tell the difference?
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