NightWatch excerpts a summary
of a congressional report on Chinese hacking of American computers:
The Chinese cyberattackers --
whoever they work for -- sure are busy bees in cyberspace, according to the
report of a Congressional hearing held in April by the U.S.-China Economic and
Security Review Commission, which was released last week." The report is dated
30 April.
A '... senior fellow at the
Technolytics Institute, a cyber think tank, told the hearing that a survey of
nonmilitary government outfits that monitor their Internet firewalls reported
an average of 128 acts of "cyber aggression" a minute from China in
March 2009.'
"That works out to 7,680 aggressive
cyber acts an hour or 184,320 a day against non-Defense organizations. The
senior fellow said all these attacks came from IP addresses in China but added
that he did not know exactly who or what sits behind those IP addresses.'"
Meanwhile, old Bill Gertz, who has made a full-time job of
tracking Chinese misdeeds, passes along a report
that a Chinese intrusion recently forced the FBI to shut down one of its
computer networks.
I wonder if the U.S. government has ever delivered a
diplomatic note telling the Chinese government to knock it off. It just seems
unfriendly to me, and not becoming a great power. Anyone know?
I can remember things like this happening as far back as 2001. In the wake of the Tainan Island spy plane incident, I recall that there were a number of US websites which experienced cyber vandalism, to include Red Hat if I'm not mistaken.
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