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Microsoft Outlook Users In China Hit With MITM Attack

Posted by samzenpus on from the right-back-at-you dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes A month after it blocked Google's Gmail, the Chinese government now stands accused of hacking Microsoft's Outlook email service, carrying out man-in-the-middle attack to snoop on private conversations. From ZDNet: " On Monday, online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org said the organization received reports that Outlook was subject to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack in China....After testing, Greatfire says that IMAP and SMTP for Outlook were under a MITM attack, while the email service's web interfaces were not affected.

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  1. Imagine that. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A state spying on it's own citizens... shameful. I'd be outraged, unless of course they said it was part of the war on terror, or whatever China's current favorite boogeyman is.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Merely beta testing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...for Cameron's plans for the West.

    Capitalism with a Chinese face.