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Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China
An anonymous reader writes: "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting this morning that Taipei is under cyber attack by a Chinese 'army of hackers'. The Taipei government is saying that the attacks are trojan-horses against windows machines that are being staged to break in to government databases."
Maybe they're just trying to undermine Windows by attacking it.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
Show your hate for SCO
Wang logs into his workstation after lunch, and thinks to himself, "Funny, I don't remember this icon on my desktop. I wonder what will happen if I double click on it."
He double clicks on it, and a dialog window pops up titled "haxx0r3d", with a message saying, "You have been hacked by chinese. Have a nice day."
After pondering the message, he clicks ok and thinks, "Hmm. I better do a checkdsk and report this to NISC."
Moral: Don't be a Wang.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Sounds like a conspiracy to me! (*Cough cough* bullshit.)
how do your say 'Did you install the latest service packs?' in taiwanese?
Yu made the remark yesterday morning during the weekly closed-door Cabinet meeting, in which Minister without Portfolio Tsai Ching-yen briefed Yu on the matter.
I hadn't realized that I talked with China or Tiawan latley.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
They're under another kind of cyber attack now. Can't get through to the linked website.
I fully expect this on the big screen in a few years.
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...couldn't they just impersonate techs, walk in and grab the government mainframes? :-)
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
(BTW, if I had mod points, I'd mod you up "Insightful".)
all your (data)base are belong to us!
there i said it, i know its japanese but it had to be said.
By the time I typed this comment, the number had not changed, so I'm probably getting a cached copy. What did it show when you hit it?
:-)
Timeout on server
Connection was to www.taipeitimes.com at port 80
heh
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
From the page source:
[font class=textsmall]This story has been viewed 1128 times. [/font]
( [] used to get through the comment form. )
It's static text. Someone should inform the Taipei Times how counters work.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
Only on slashdot are Civil rights violations mentioned in the same sentence as pirated anime of all things.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Hey, at least they know to refer to it as a "trojan horse". Unlike the head of IT here at work who sends out emails to everyone warning them of the "internet virus worm".
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Not necessarily static text.
:)
If something like a php counter is being used...it could by dynamic and you wouldnt know.
However, the non changing number makes it look quite static
My personal counter shows similarly to the average "view sourcer" but magic php elves make it += every hit!
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
me chinese me play trick me ping -f'in on your nick
MoFscker
Please help me decide who to cheer for.
Taiwan should ditch their Windows boxes for something more secure. Like, say, Red Flag Linux?
One of my friends of the asian persuasion has taught me the true Chinese way of attacking.
First, no not all Chinese people know kung-fu.
This is a common misconception bred from kung-fu movies. They actually get to choose their martial art. So some know karate instead.
Secondly, the Chinese use giant chopstick catapults to throw themselves to Taiwan, and then they use these martial arts to attack.
Third, the Chinese NEVER use technology to attack! It is simply not honourable. You must commit "harry-karry" (which is, yes, japanese and spelled american). The honourable way to attack is with martial arts. Possibly using weapons, if the other agrees to it in the duel, and their sensai throws them the same weapon you have.
Because a numchuck vs. sword fight simply isnt fair, or lengthly enough to make a good film.
I must get a glass of water...this is a little dry.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
So after they do nuke, the computers that survive won't be running Windows.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
It's ridiculous. What's next, getting Dennis Miller to be color man on Monday Night Football? Oh wait
Yeah, Dennis Miller's already in the house. Now when they put Rush Limbaugh in there, I'll know that the Apocalypse is at hand.
Oops.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
This just in...
The Taipei Times is under attack from a group of computer experts in the United States. The group, calling themselves Slashdot, have bombarded the Taipei website with so many hits, that it cannot distribute web pages anymore.
More on this story at eleven.
Those nice folks in mainland China are just trying to accelerate the transition to Linux in the Asia-Pacific region by exposing the folly of using Windows for anything other than games.
Funny how my posts get ranked (-1, Troll) five times as often when I throw the "Esq." at the end of my name.
Man! so that's why my karma's suddenly in the toilet! Makes so much sense!
Sincerely,
Darl McBride, Esq.
Wow, guess the targetted Windows boxes really are "Hacked by Chinese" this time.
It rebooted. China 0wns
me. Blue screen now red.
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In other news, China has posted stories to Slashdot about Taiwan's major internet sites. These sites have been effecively shut down due to the "slashdot effect." Film at 11.
is that b/c they'd be running the new cockroach version of linux that's been EMP-hardened? :D
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>> Yu made the remark yesterday morning during the weekly closed-door Cabinet meeting.
No I didn't. And learn to spell "you"!
My other car is first.
the Chinese are actually trying to HELP the Taiwanese... their plan is to take over all the Windows machines and install Linux on them!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
"Chinese Army of Hackers" = 13 year old looking for Anna Kournikova pictures.
The most distributed attack ever. Every person in China tried pinging the Taiwan sites at the same time.
Why not escalate this to the next level and have one country flood the other with cheap copies of cheap copies of pirated software to destroy that piece of the economy?
"Now copy of pirate copy of Wnidows [sic] NT 4.0... only $.10!"
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
Resume: George W Bush
Past work experience:
Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments as president:
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
Dissolv ed more international treaties than any president in US history.
My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
Rendered the entire Unite
That should read: "Taiwan Uses Windows to Host Government Databases"
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