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Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks
courteaudotbiz writes "Canada and all members of the U5 (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New-Zealand) state that they all suffered government-directed attacks between June and September 2007. These seemed to be Chinese government sponsored attacks." It's a Google translation, so it's a bit hard to read, but it seems to be a recurring story these last few months.
One small request: when you post stuff like this, please post the original link. We're not all illiterates around here.
...laura
They tried to Google-translate Canadian into English? You fools, It cannot be done!
You actually make a good point, humor aside... Why does an article from a primarily-English speaking country (And the Quebecois all speak English fluently, the pompous gits just won't) need translation in the first place?
Offhand, I would have to suspect this as some sort of propagandist rag that cares more about inciting the masses than reaching them.
Yep - there's even a webpage for the Air Force's cyber attackers.
The NSA is known to hide backdoors in US software distributed overseas (think "Windows") and the CIA and NSA almost certainly also have cyber war departments - although they don't broadcast that fact via a webpage.
The CIA has actually managed to blow up a Russian pipeline using cyber attacks - in 1982!
China is just returning fire from US attacks that have been occurring since the dawn of the information age.