Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @07:38AM from the us-replies-with-ping-of-death dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Chinese military propaganda video aired in mid-July inadvertently showed a Chinese military university launching cyberattacks against U.S. websites. The Epoch Times reports the video shows 'custom-built Chinese software apparently launching a cyber-attack against the main website of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, by using a compromised IP address belonging to a United States university.' A screen in the video also reveals 'the name of the software and the Chinese university that built it, the Electrical Engineering University of China's People's Liberation Army.'"

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Re:WTF? Pre-post comment. by elrous0 · 2011-08-23 07:42 · Score: 5, Informative

Okay, actually, this article was originally posted at about 2 pm, but got bumped for the earthquake story. I got the one comment in before it got bumped, apparently.
But I'm still fucking awesome.

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Re:Script kiddies, seriously China? by gnick · 2011-08-23 07:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

Blatant sub-kiddie-script level hacking by the Chinese government (possibly the best funded cyber-warfare division on the planet) against the Falun Gong being "exposed" by a web site created by the Falun Gong? I wonder why my Spidey-Sense is tingling?

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