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| East Asia |
| Taiwan targeted by Chinese hackers |
| 2003-09-10 |
| From Geostrategy-Direct, requires subscription.... China launched an information warfare attack against Taiwan. The Internet attack involved the use of Trojan horse programs to infect private computers that were then able to break into government databases. "National intelligence has indicated that an army of hackers based in China’s Hubei and Fujian provinces has successfully spread 23 different Trojan horse programs to the networks of 10 private high-tech companies here to use them as a springboard to break into at least 30 different government agencies and 50 private companies," Cabinet spokesman Lin Chia-lung told reporters in Taipei Sept. 4. Hit in the computer attacks were the National Police Administration, the Ministry of National Defense, the Central Election Commission and the Central Bank of China.The attacks were detected and countermeasures were taken before any networks were damaged. China’s military has made information warfare a major priority. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #1 How stupid can they get? THey just alerted Taiwan to their intentions. Not only is Taiwan going to do whatever is necessary to see that this doesn't happen again, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that a counter-warfare campaign has already been started by Taiwan, using their best and brightest - which I'd match against ANYONE. I know this was just a nusiance attack to counter the "change the name to Taiwan" campaign, but I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the guy that first brought this up, or his supervisors that approved it. I'll bet they're doing lower-edge repairs to the Three Gorges dam right now, on the upstream side. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-10 5:17:44 PM |