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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Re:Oh yeah, targeted indeed. by absinthminded64 · 2006-10-09 05:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

Look! They're clever.. They even get the nerdy Star Trek logins too!

Oct 8 12:03:30 myHost sshd[31961]: Invalid user data from 203.177.166.137 Oct 8 12:03:32 myHost sshd[31961]: Failed password for invalid user data from 203.177.166
Oct 8 12:03:39 myHost sshd[31965]: Invalid user jane from 203.177.166.137 Oct 8 12:03:42 myHost sshd[31965]: Failed password for invalid user jane from 203.177.166