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Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-hate-when-that-happens dept.

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.

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  1. Raid? Border Scurmish? War? by bozojoe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So at what point does someone decide this is with hostile intent? Does this apply to corporation as well? Can DuPont invade Johnson's and Johnson's?

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  2. Make it legal by canuck57 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not just make it legal for us to hack Chinese IP addresses? This could be fun!

    Then once we have their systems they will negotiate.

  3. Critical Infrastrucure attack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So when is a nation wide attack on a critical infrastructure not a call to war?

    It appears to have caused measurable damage and have been deliberately caused by a foreign nation.

  4. great firewall of china by superflex · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Would it not be really easy to misattribute the sources of these attacks to Chinese-gov't sources when everybody in China connects to the Net through a gov't-controlled firewall?
    Can anyone who knows more about this than me comment?

    Oh, and regarding the "U5" debate, RTFA. From the article "We have had confirmation from our partners U5 (USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada)" This corresponds to the UKUSA member countries.

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  5. Re:So... by zappepcs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When is the US going to "Cyber invade" China? ... Put on the tin foil hat. To properly cyber-invade the country, the U5 will need some advance search teams on the ground there. Some folks to ensure that targeted data attacks hit the right spots. These advanced search and spotter groups will be sent in the form of Olympic "trainers", cooks, security, and flunkies. Once the Olympics is done, then we'll see some interesting fiber cable cuts and one or two odd DNS issues, then the spynetwork installation will be complete, and the only person that will know more about China than the US government will be Mr Chan who sells noodles on a side street in Beijing.

    Tinfoil hat off: They are already spying on them with satellites and anything that you might think of plus a few other things that are so outrageously expensive and impractical that you would not imagine that they are using them.

    The cold war is not over, it simply moved to the Intarwebtubes.

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  6. Quick translation (from a Canadian) by An+anonymous+Frank · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What if the Chinese gov simply told a bunch of lonely Chinese teenagers that they'd get access to playboy.com if they ran some scripts for them on the weekends?

    anyhoot, here are the only "facts" from TFA:

    - over 20 branches of CA gov hit
    - "U5" is quoted from a note given to Stockwell Day
    - link to China is unconfirmed by US and Canada
    - in an unrelated case, Le Monde (France) traced attacks back to Chinese nodes