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Chinese hackers ‘using ghost network to control embassy computers’
timesonline ^
| March 30, 2009
| Mike Harvey, Technology Correspondent
Posted on 03/30/2009 4:32:24 PM PDT by Flavius
A spy network believed to have been controlled from China has hacked into classified documents on government and private computers in 103 countries, according to internet researchers. The spy system, dubbed GhostNet, is alleged to have compromised 1,295 machines at Nato and foreign ministries, embassies, banks and news organisations across the world, as well as computers used by the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; ghostnet; great; malware; western; world
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03/30/2009 4:32:24 PM PDT
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Flavius
To: TigersEye
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posted on
03/30/2009 4:58:06 PM PDT
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pandoraou812
(Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
To: pandoraou812
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03/30/2009 5:01:02 PM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: Flavius
The Chinese Embassy in London said that there was no evidence to back up the claim that the Chinese Government was behind GhostNet and alleged that the report had been “commissioned by the Tibetan government in exile... In China, it is against the law to hack into the computers of others..." They do have a droll sense of humor.
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03/30/2009 5:01:10 PM PDT
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marron
To: XeniaSt
I don’t know but I keep updating my computer & running scans.
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03/30/2009 5:03:12 PM PDT
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pandoraou812
(Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
To: pandoraou812
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posted on
03/30/2009 5:15:17 PM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: XeniaSt
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posted on
03/30/2009 5:17:29 PM PDT
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pandoraou812
(Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
To: marron
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posted on
03/30/2009 6:36:55 PM PDT
by
khnyny
("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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