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]]> By: rgl http://xato.com/windows-security/china-caught-hacking-good-thing-our-government-does-not-do-that#comment-272 rgl Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:50:42 +0000 http://xato.net/bl/2007/09/06/china-caught-hacking-good-thing-our-government-does-not-do-that/#comment-272 This matter is not only concerning the US and British governments, but also the IT systems of Germany (and even probably those of other nations) have been illegally accessed by Chinese attackers, too. An official newspaper article by "Spiegel", which is one of the German big news publishers reported this incident in detail on August 25th, 2007: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,501954,00.html Unfortunately this German speaking article has not been published in the international website of the newspaper (http://www.spiegel.de/international/). But there are two smaller articles on the US website of the "Financial Times": Beijing pledges crackdown on international hackers: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b4cfc4e-54fe-11dc-890c-0000779fd2ac.html China pledges to combat hacking: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fd754098-54fe-11dc-890c-0000779fd2ac.html Altogether not political interests alone, but as well economical motivation drives those attackers: For years now there have been warnings of industrial espionage by national and international security advisors addressed especially to small and medium enterprises out there who still does not secure their perimeter infrastructure properly, either due to lack of knowledge or sometimes even simply because of reluctance to investments in seemingly "non-profit business areas". In view of this development I do not feel very surprised by this current escalation, at all. This matter is not only concerning the US and British governments, but also the IT systems of Germany (and even probably those of other nations) have been illegally accessed by Chinese attackers, too.
An official newspaper article by “Spiegel”, which is one of the German big news publishers reported this incident in detail on August 25th, 2007: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,501954,00.html
Unfortunately this German speaking article has not been published in the international website of the newspaper (http://www.spiegel.de/international/).
But there are two smaller articles on the US website of the “Financial Times”:
Beijing pledges crackdown on international hackers:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b4cfc4e-54fe-11dc-890c-0000779fd2ac.html
China pledges to combat hacking: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fd754098-54fe-11dc-890c-0000779fd2ac.html

Altogether not political interests alone, but as well economical motivation drives those attackers:
For years now there have been warnings of industrial espionage by national and international security advisors addressed especially to small and medium enterprises out there who still does not secure their perimeter infrastructure properly, either due to lack of knowledge or sometimes even simply because of reluctance to investments in seemingly “non-profit business areas”.
In view of this development I do not feel very surprised by this current escalation, at all.

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