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Chinese Hackers Targeting NYPD Computers
Mike writes "A network of hackers, most based in China, have been making up to 70,000 attempts a day to break into the NYPD's computer system, the city's Commissioner, Raymond Kelly, revealed Wednesday. Kelly suggested that 'perhaps it is because of the NYPD's reach into the international arena' that they are being targeted for computer hacking 'in much the way the Pentagon has been.' The hackers are apparently using a botnet to make up to 5,000 attempts a day at various unsecured portals into the NYPD's files. China's foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang denied involvement in computer espionage. 'Some people outside of China are bent on fabricating lies of so-called Chinese computer spies,' he said last month. The obvious question is, why are the Chinese so interested in the NYPD computer network?"
Someone should create a GUI interface using Visual-Basic to track an IP!
Practice makes perfect.
is that once they hacked the computer systems, an hour later they needed to hack it again!
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
The Chinese are trying to find out where the best and tastiest donuts in the NYC area are located.
Unfortunately for them, I happen to know the information they seek is loaded on an air gapped mainframe in the heart of Police HQ which is guarded by automatic defense systems and can only be accessed by the Chief of Police and Rudy Guiliani.
Yeah, they forgot to update who the mayor is... this is the police here, not the NSA, okay?
It's criminal overlord Mandarin, controlling his gang of Triads from an underground bunker that can only be accessed via secret door in the base of the Statue of Liberty.
It will take an epic alliance of Tony Stark and Peter Parker to put aside their past differences, fighting over the woman they both loved, and both lost, to put a stop to this criminal masterplot to end the world as we know it.
Starring: Jackie Chan as the Mandarin
Zac Efron as Peter Parker
and Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark.
Oh, come one, that's just what they want you to believe.
It's actually the Chinese pretending to be a New Yorker pretending to be the Chinese business mafia.
It all comes down to logic. Are they the kind of criminals that would initiate the attacks from someone else's IP address block, or have they deduced that we would see through the ruse and would therefore host the attacks from their own IP address block?
It appears we have made one of the classic blunders, which is never get involved in a technical war in asia.
My guess is it's probably someone looking for inside information on investigations of financial companies in New York. That's where there are hundreds of millions to be made.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
They are trying to "fix" their parking tickets that their ambassadors have received at the UN.
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