Chinese "Cyber-Attack" US Department of Commerce

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 9, 2006 @01:08AM from the and-you-thought-your-weekend-was-boring dept.

Kranfer writes "The register has an article about how the Chinese have recently launched an attack against the US Department of Commerce. From the article: '...attacks originating from computer crackers largely located in China's Guangdong province are aimed at extracting sensitive information from targets such as the Commerce Department's technology export office. Security consultants and US government officials reckon the assaults have at least the tacit support of the Chinese government...' This is not the first time Chinese hackers have attempted to gain access to US Government systems."

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Dupe? by bfree · 2006-10-09 01:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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1. Re:Dupe? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-09 02:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Unfortunately, the Chinese have also hacked the slashdot editors, as well as the dumbass moderators who mark parent as Offtopic, and not Insightful.
  And yeah sure you can ignore the truth in this post and mark it as flamebait. No thinking person should trust the moderation system anymore.