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Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree (zdnet.com)
A day after the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals for being members of a state-sponsored hacking group and accused the Chinese government of orchestrating a string of hacks around the world, five other governments have stepped in with similar accusations. From a report: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK have published official statements today formally blaming China of hacking their government agencies and local companies. All statements are in regards to the supposed involvement of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) in supporting the activity of a hacking group known as APT10. In a DOJ indictment yesterday, the US says this group hacked companies in 12 countries, and later breached cloud service providers, wormed through their infrastructure, and hacked even more companies. US officials said the primary purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies, helping create an unfair advantage for local firms on the global market.
spent half the time and energy securing their resources as they do whining about people stealing them we would not have an issue.
Obviously, I don't know what our security agencies get up to.but it seems that we have a cyber-war going on that is being fought by only one side.
ECHELON didn't hack into China's networks. You're confusing data collection regimes with intrusive exfiltration and corporate spying - like a moron might do in defense of a state-backed criminal enterprise like China.
trump should say any one hacking china will get an auto pardon.
I kinda secretly wish all governments would spiral into failure and the world economy would just cease to be a thing.
Are you one of those idiots who thinks the world would be better with anarchy? Or is it just capitalism? Do you have any idea just how shitty life was before capitalism? It wasn't good man... It wasn't like the movies.. Do you understand that prior to the invention of antibiotics that any infection was potentially life threatening? A broken bone could KILL you.. It didn't always, but it sure as fuck killed a lot of people.. Marrow infections, etc...
For fuck's sake, the average lifespan globally in 1950, was 50 years old. (global average - the industrialized nations had much higher lifespans of course). But that was only 68 years ago. Also, just as an aside, in Asia and the Middle East, in 1950, the average lifespan was 42.
All governments conduct or sponsor hacking. The principal difference between the United States and China is that American hacking is subject to review by the judicial branch of government. Hence, the American Civil Liberties Union can sue Washington to curb American hacking or to expose its extent.
Chinese hacking is not subject to such constraints. China is a brutal, authoritarian society.
So, hacking by Westerners is not morally equivalent to hacking by Chinese or even Indians.
Ah the wall. Ever wonder how Mexicans get under the existing wall so fast?
The problem is that you people seem to think that even a partial success is a failure. Are walls perfect? No... But the Berlin Wall showed that they are effective. They aren't foolproof, but they are absolutely more effective than having nothing.
What idiot thinks that 1,500 miles of barbed wire is going to stop anyone?
Why is it racist to think that 30,000,000 illegals, in a country that takes in 1,000,000 legal immigrants PER YEAR, might be a problem?
I submitted USA's own mass surveillance program 'Hemisphere' and that story NEVER got published. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
Does CIA/NSA has / . on its payroll?
Damn, those communists are too good at capitalism.
purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies
Fortunately, NSA would not do this (hint: to Airbus, for Boeing)