Researchers at the University of Toronto traced pieces of malicious code found on more than 1,200 computers worldwide and discovered that it originated from China.The Globe and Mail reported that the software had tapped into top secret documents from governments in 103 countries. Most troubling was the discovery of said software on the computers of Tibetan exiles, leading to the presumption that a goal of this spy campaign was to acquire information regarding the Dalai Lama.
The spy network, dubbed "GhostNet" was uncovered by Canadian researches at the Munk Institute for International Studies in the University of Toronto.
The researchers have notified international intelligence agencies and it is presumed that further investigation is being undertaken.
The Canadian researcher responsible, a Mr. Villeneuve, was sifting through approximately 1GB of indiscernable characters when he decided to paste them into Google. Upon doing so, it is reported that such action led him to one of the machines responsible for the malicious code. Upon changing a character within the code, he stumbled upon another server, in another country and so on and so forth.
The publication of the research paper can be found on Scribd.
The Chinese government has stated that it is as much against cyber-terrorism as everyone else, and has not sanctioned any such operations.
The Chinese government is just kidding themselves when they deny they had anything to do with these malicious acts. I would hope no one would actually believe them. Sadly, any civilized government has to pretend to believe them and move on....
The Chinese government is just kidding themselves when they deny they had anything to do with these malicious acts. I would hope no one would actually believe them. Sadly, any civilized government has to pretend to believe them and move on....
There is nothing that China is doing that the US has not done or that Russia has not done when it was still a superpower. Intelman...maybe you should study and read about what the CIA has done or the KGB etc...
I am aware of Mkulta...etc. I know what the US has done. But China is different, they thumb their nose at everyone, having mobile execution vans and all.
This is exactly right. Its only a big deal because secrets are made to stay that way. Intelligence agencies are working when they aren't talked about.
How's that different from the U.S involvement in every war in modern history or bailing out every conceivable failing companies? Plz don't tell me what you know about the CIA has done because if you did, you're going to be sitting in gitmo blogging this...but then maybe you are.
but ... you can always tell ... the whistle blowers and its friends are usually the ones who are loosing the game they themselves started ...
a)They (the canadians guys) found a couple of spywares, trojan and virus in pro-Tibetan computer.
b)Then, they found that many spywares will try to connect to China... (also Russia, Germany,Nigeria and USA but those are irrelevant). Neither antivirus or firewall is able to detect it.
c)So, we can conclude that :
China hate tibetans -> then -> China put cyber spy into Tibetan computer.
d)...
e)Profit!!
Is funny how a clueless bigot can mislead a complete study, or how a lousy teacher is able to (supposedly) spend millions of dollar in a international field investigation.
and to be honest I dont think that mr Dalai Lama is more important than several of those countries.
What happened was that the Tibetan "governmant" requested them ( The Canadians ) to verify if their pcs were safe
whats even funnier is that the Canadians do say this
They do not say it was CHINA , the Media does use them because ofc it sells , read the report
its like me being in vacations in the USA hack something in Mother Russia and bam , the US is hacking Russia OMG
Soon China will expose all the other countries that do exactly what they allegedly have done.
I still do not understand why government offices allow machines with sensitive data upon them to have network access.
yes my name is sky........................net and i am here to finish off humanity
Why?
Because India had to _call_ in FBI agents from US to help them, which is an embarassment for them and thus, they learn all the tools and tricks FBI uses so in the future they can do it themselves and 'develop' This is the same principle countries like China use, they want your information, your way of doing things so they can do it as well.
(And it's not "mostly." There's a mix of everyone down here.)
Its April fools Im assuming
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