US networks attacked by Chinese military
 

THE CHINESE military is trying to penetrate US government and industry computer networks, the head of a security institute claims.



Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an education and research organisation focusing on cybersecurity said a number of attacks had been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong.

He said that the techniques the hackers have been using make it unlikely that they have came from any other source than the military.

Paller said that the attacks are carried out by someone with intense discipline, which is something rarely seen in hacker outfits normally.

He said that during the attacks, the perpetrators "were in and out with no keystroke errors and left no fingerprints, and created a backdoor in less than 30 minutes. Paller said the US government was downplaying the attacks, which had not helped the situation.

Things that had been taken included US military flight planning software from its Redstone Arsenal, he said. More in the Sydney Morning Herald, here.

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