Chinese hack computers at congressman's office

Houston Chronicle ^ | 6/11/08 | AP

[Dawnsblood]

A Virginia congressman said today the FBI has found that four of his government computers have been hacked by sources working out of China.

In remarks prepared for delivery this afternoon, Rep. Frank Wolf says he has been told by the FBI that four computers in his personal office were compromised.

The Virginia Republican says that similar incidents — also originating from China — have taken place on computers of other members of Congress and at least one House committee.

A spokesman for Wolf says the four computers were being used by staff members working on human rights issues.

Wolf is a longtime critic of the Chinese government's human rights record.

[samtheman]

Hillary selling passwords to get out of debt?

[snowrip]

But... but... This story CAN’T be accurate. Bush and the other RINOs have assured us that the Chinese are our friends!

[steel_resolve]

Looks like its time to cut the undersea cable again.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The PC’s were probably built in China. Check the lead content to verify.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting, Dawnsblood. Ping;ping;ping.

[cardinal4]

ping

[Gorzaloon]

Looks like its time to cut the undersea cable again.

If only. When will people have enough of this?

I do not know how much bigger my .htaccess file can get, but I have all of their IP's blocked from my sites, and keep it up to date. It's fun to read the logs. Why they would want to bother with me is another puzzle, excepting the bot activity.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

[cardinal4]

The Chicoms have snooped in your PC?

[traumer]

B@$*&^% !

[XeniaSt]

GET ROOT !

[rabscuttle385]

The PC’s were probably built in China.

And the software was designed right here in the good ol' USA.

Frank Wolf is my district's Representative in Congress.

Tech ping

[fishtank]

At our company site, we CANNOT use Lenovo laptops, becasue of the Red Chinese security threat.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Check the lead content to verify

Hell, just weigh 'em.

[Conspiracy Guy]

We are a software nation. But we don’t manufacture anything any more.

[Conspiracy Guy]

My Toshiba laptop was manufactured in China.

[Conspiracy Guy]

true

[edcoil]

“have taken place on computers of other members of Congress”

Aren’t all of Congress’s computers behind the same firewall and then each Congressman’s office has its own security?

[PhilDragoo]

Unrestricted Warfare Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui (Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)

[WVKayaker]

[ShadowAce]

[TribalPrincess2U]

I don’t eat in Chinese restaurants anymore. I got violently sick and went to ER.
Once is enough, never again!

[antiRepublicrat]

I do not know how much bigger my .htaccess file can get, but I have all of their IP's blocked from my sites, and keep it up to date.

That sort of helps, but then they just use any of the thousands of systems in the US they've compromised to hit your site. Our government is starting to wake up to this threat, but I don't think they've realized that we're already fully at war with China on this front. Well, elements of the government may realize it, but there's no concerted political, diplomatic and military response that I can see commensurate with our at-war status.

[Vaduz]

Mine is too I noticed the encoding option Engrish.

[Knitebane]

Norton?

Brilliant!

Not that it actually provides any security, but it will slow the computer down so much as to make it unusable.

That'll fix 'em!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Engrish is my plimaly ranguage.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

;-)

[Gorzaloon]

The Chicoms have snooped in your PC?

No, the firewall and other scanners stop that. A relative had a new (DUH..Unsecured..) computer for less than two days before it was taken down by a lot of things, but most of those were commercial American scum(following the money).

The website servers get hammered with SYNfloods, etc. and dictionary probes far worse.

Some people get mad when I rail about this filthy festering pesthole that IS very much at war with us, forgetting that every place on the Internet is "Next door".

[Salo]

Out of curiosity, what PCs can you use that aren’t made of ChiCom parts?

[mikey_hates_everything]

This sucks. He was personally involved in preventing the State Dept. from purchasing thousands of Lenovo PCs. Going against a previous promise made to the Chinese by an Administration official for some reason.

Chinese parts themselves aren’t a threat but when a gov’t agency purchases thousands, what’s to stop the PLA from adding “extras” during assembly that make those PCs “phone home” as soon as they are connected?

[Paul Ross]

Well, elements of the government may realize it, but there's no concerted political, diplomatic and military response that I can see commensurate with our at-war status.

Agreed. It is because the White House itself is aggressively stomping out any concerns as "inordinate" and "counterproductive" to their diplomatic posture.

Hence we are seeing Democrat-style denial in a supposedly Republican Administation. Appeasement in other words.

[nw_arizona_granny]

were being used by staff members working on human rights issues.<<<

That would be the reason for the hacking.

Not a surprise, thanks for the ping.

[papasmurf]

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963...

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm

[JACKRUSSELL]

A ping list dedicated to exposing the quality, safety and security issues of food and other products made in China.


Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.

(This can be a high volume ping list.)

[bannie]

I'm sure that this is no problem...They're our friends, donchaknow! I'll bet that they were just tryin' to help us. Yea, that's it: They were just tryin' to help us!