Saturday, June 21, 2008

CHINA HACKS DEFENSE DEPARTMENT COMPUTERS

I don't see much main stream media coverage of what Chinese hackers are doing. It is more sophisticated than I thought.

U.S. intelligence officials disclosed that one objective of the Chinese hacking is to plant “trap doors” into government computer systems that would permit shutting down or disrupting the systems in war time. Some government agencies were forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars replacing compromised computers because they could not be certain that Chinese hackers had not left hidden access points in them.

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