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Lorenzo · « **on:** September 06, 2007, 03:22:26 PM »

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LONDON (AFP) - Chinese computer hackers are infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret information, according to media reports on Thursday.

The reports in The Times and The Independent newspapers come a day after US President George W. Bush said he may bring up the issue of suspected Chinese cyber-attacks on the US defence department in a meeting with China's President Hu Jintao.

"China is engaged in hostile intelligence activities, and instead of using the old-fashioned methods, they are focusing on electronic means to hack into systems to discover Britain's defence and foreign policy secrets, and they are technologically pretty advanced and adept at it," an unnamed government source told The Times.

Another senior government source, meanwhile, told The Independent: "Governments throughout the West have been aware of this for a number of years. It has been an ongoing practice by the Chinese. They are trying it all the time. The firewalls that need to go in are going in."

Both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence have declined to comment on the reports.

In Washington, the Pentagon said Tuesday that several nations and groups were trying to break into the US military's computer system after the Financial Times reported China's military had successfully hacked into the network in June.

Unanmed officials told the Financial Times the attack was by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and that it led to the shutdown of a computer system serving the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

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pioneer · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2007, 04:02:07 PM »

These Chinese hackers may be part of a larger group of organized hackers named "Titan Rain." An article by Time Magazine was disappointing because U.S. authorities have not been paying serious attention to the infiltration.

According to an American systems analyst, he's saddened by the fact that many U.S. authorities simply ignored his warning that the Chinese hackers have already hijacked many military and corporate computers. He even went on warning that China can bring down the U.S. by triggering a massive computer attack, perhaps setting off nuclear installations in the U.S. and controlling US-owned satellites.

Now these old-aged (mga tiguwang) U.S. authorities (those in FBI, CIA, and State Department) may not understand the serious damage and implication to this infiltration because they don't understand the language of computer and networking. Perhaps their knowledge on computer is up to receiving and sending office e-mails only. This was the lamentation of an American hacker who has been trying to stop the Titan Rain.

The Invasion of Chinese Hackers into the U.S. and the Man Who Tried to Stop Them
Must-read article: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1098961,00.html

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