Feb 10
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, ISN
‘Aurora’ Attacks Still Under Way, Investigators Closing In On Malware Creators
Researchers find ‘markers’ associated with authors of Aurora malware used in attacks against Google, others
Feb 10, 2010 | 02:27 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading
The targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, and other U.S. organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 or so reported by Google and others.
Security experts who have worked on forensics investigations and cleanup of the victim organizations from the attacks that originated out of China say they are also getting closer to identifying the author or authors of the malware used to breach Google and others.
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Feb 09
Times EnemyChina China, insecure news, ISN, spying
Dongfang "Greg" Chung leaves Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana in 2009
Chinese-born engineer gets 15 years in spying for China
Dongfan ‘Greg’ Chung, who worked with Boeing and Rockwell International, was accused of providing information on the space shuttle and Delta IV rocket.
By Patrick J. McDonnell
February 9, 2010
A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle data and other information for China.
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Dec 05
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, ISN
From: mea culpa <jericho_at_dimensional.com>
Date: Sat 05 Dec 1998 – 04:21:12 CST
Forwarded From: jeradonah lives <jeradonah@juno.com>
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-China-Internet-Trial.html
December 4, 1998
China Puts Computer Whiz on Trial
Filed at 2:30 p.m. EST
By The Associated Press
SHANGHAI, China (AP) — China has extended its crackdown on dissent to the Internet, putting a computer whiz on trial Friday for giving e-mail addresses to an online pro-democracy magazine.
The case is the first prosecution of its kind in the ruling Communist Party’s attempt to exploit the Internet commercially while crushing attempts to turn it into a forum for dissent.
Oct 27
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, ISN, news
by Niall McKay
9:17 a.m. 27.Oct.98.PST
American crackers have defaced a Web site recently launched by China to provide the official view on the country’s human rights record.
The site is run by the Chinese Society for Human Rights, a group that represents China in its dialog with other countries on the rights issue. The page usually contains links to government documents and articles from the state-run media.
However, on Monday night, angry crackers replaced the official page with a political message of their own.
“I simply can not believe the total bullshit propaganda on this Web site,” wrote one cracker, who goes by the name “Bronc Buster.”
Oct 22
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, ISN, news
22-10-1998 10:42
BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – China arrested its first suspected cyber-bank robbers last week after two brothers allegedly hacked into a bank network system and stole 260,000 yuan ($31,000) in the eastern province of Jiangsu, the Beijing Youth Daily said.
The elder brother, Hao Jinglong, was an accountant at the Zhenjiang Industrial and Commercial Bank, where he had mastered the entire computer network.
The two brothers allegedly broke into the ceiling of a rural branch of the bank in September and planted a remote control in the computer terminal which created false accounts, the newspaper said.
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Oct 12
Times EnemyChina, news China, insecure news, ISN, news
BEIJING (October 12, 1998 08:44 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) – As China becomes ever-more wired, computer police must raise Internet security standards to catch the growing numbers of cyber-criminals, the People’s Daily said on Monday.
China has detected more than 100 cases of computer crimes in the past two years, the most serious case involving the theft of $1.2 million, China’s ruling party mouthpiece said.
Internet surveillance in China was hampered by an inefficient computer police force, out-dated computer protection equipment imported in the 1980s and the slow development of computer protection products, the newspaper said.
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Hackers stay a step ahead of China’s cyber-police
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Sep 14
Times EnemyChina, news China, insecure news, ISN, news
SHANGHAI (Reuters) [9.14.98] China has arrested its first suspected computer hacker under a new criminal law, a Shanghai newspaper said on Monday.
A 22-year-old university mathematics student who was identified only by his surname Yang was arrested recently after he broke into a Shanghai computer network, the Liberation Daily said.
“The computer hacker had the ability to delete, modify, insert or disrupt the information or even paralyse the network,” the newspaper said without naming the network.
Jul 29
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, ISN, news
AP:
JULY 29, 15:31 EDT China To Try Computer Engineer BEIJING (AP) – China plans to prosecute a computer engineer for providing 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses to a U.S.-based Internet democracy magazine, a human rights group said Wednesday. Lin Hai, the 30-year-old founder and manager of a computer software company in Shanghai, was arrested on charges of “inciting the overthrow of state power” and soon will be tried, according to the Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China. Prosecutors in Shanghai have completed the indictment against him and plan to hand the case over shortly for trial, the group said. Conviction generally carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.
Jul 19
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, ISN
From: mea culpa <jericho_at_dimensional.com>
Date: Sun 19 Jul 1998 – 19:55:42 CDT
Report: Computer hackers pose new problem in China
BEIJING (AP) — China is running into problems with hackers, computer criminals who are using the country’s growing passion for the Internet to steal and cause mischief, an official newspaper said Sunday.
In one case, a hacker posted a pornographic picture on an Internet page about the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. A younger hacker from the financial center of Shanghai also illegally broke into a stock trading center’s computer system and stole information, the Economic Daily said.
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Jun 24
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, CIA, information warfare, insecure news, ISN, news
WASHINGTON (June 24, 1998 3:04 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com)
China and others have begun to focus on U.S. commercial computer networks’ vulnerability to prepare for any future conflict, CIA Director George Tenet told a Senate committee Wednesday. Testifying as President Clinton left for a state visit aimed at strengthening ties with Beijing, Tenet said the magnitude of the threat from a wide range of potential foes, by implication including China, was “extraordinary.”
He cited the danger of various forms of intrusion into networked information systems, tampering and “delivery of malicious code.”
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May 20
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, ISN
From: mea culpa <jericho_at_dimensional.com>
Date: Wed 20 May 1998 – 20:01:52 CDT
Forwarded From: drudge@drudgereport.com
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX 12:32:55 EDT WED MAY 20 1998 XXXXX
**Exclusive**
One major issue that made Defense and State Department types nervous about the launching of U.S satellites from Chinese rockets was how to protect encryption equipment that is built into a satellite and electronically interprets commands from ground controllers who manipulate the bird once it is in orbit.
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