User:Defaultface/china cyber attacks

"But even the researchers who have uncovered the attacks disagree on whether or not there is sufficient evidence of state-sponsored espionage. The truth is that, like many of the delicate issues arising around cybersecurity, it is almost impossible to definitively work out who was behind the attack. But over and above the Chinese state's relationship with the internet, there is also a strong and effective group of Chinese neo-nationalists who see it as part of their job to protect the country from its enemies. They organise online protests and attacks. They feel that the western world does not understand the Tibetan problem. They act in an apparently independent manner, but act in a manner that seems to further the Chinese government's agenda. Security experts in Estonia have long blamed Russian government agents for the 2007 attack on their country's infrastructure - but even when I met up with Nato's leading cyberdefence team, they were unable to show any direct evidence that proved it was an act by the Russian state and not an independent group” (42).

“U.S. computer security authorities detected a series of cyber intrusions in 2002 into unclassified U.S. military, government, and government contractor Web sites and computer systems. This large-scale operation, code named Titan Rain by the U.S. government, was attributed to China (Thornburgh 2005 in 40 p. 162) Targeted locations included the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, the Missile Defense Agency, and Sandia National Laboratories. Major General William Lord from the U.S. Air Force Office of Warfighting Integration, speaking at an information technology conference, said that China downloaded 10 to 20 terabytes of data (Onley and Wait 2006 in 40 p. 162).” (40).