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  • The Invasion Of The Chinese Cyberspies (into "secure" military computers)

    08/28/2005 10:56:31 AM PDT · by FairOpinion · 38 replies · 989+ views
    Time Magazine ^ | Aug. 28, 2005 | NATHAN THORNBURGH
    Carpenter had never seen hackers work so quickly, with such a sense of purpose. They would commandeer a hidden section of a hard drive, zip up as many files as possible and immediately transmit the data to way stations in South Korea, Hong Kong or Taiwan before sending them to mainland China. They always made a silent escape, wiping their electronic fingerprints clean and leaving behind an almost undetectable beacon allowing them to re-enter the machine at will. An entire attack took 10 to 30 minutes. "Most hackers, if they actually get into a government network, get excited and make...
  • Hackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites: U.S. Agencies' Networks Are Among Targets

    08/25/2005 3:33:03 PM PDT · by Siobhan · 15 replies · 439+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | J+M+J 24 August A.D. 2005 | Bradley Graham
    Web sites in China are being used heavily to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks, according to several U.S. officials.Classified systems have not been compromised, the officials added. U.S. authorities remain concerned because, as one official said, even seemingly innocuous information, when pulled together from various sources, can yield useful intelligence to an adversary."The scope of this thing is surprisingly big," said one of four government officials who spoke separately about the incidents, which stretch back as far as two or three years and have been code-named Titan Rain...