Friday, April 2, 2010

Chinese city is world’s hacker hub

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A CITY in eastern China has been identified as the world capital of cyber-espionage by an American internet security company.

The firm traced 12 billion emails in a study which showed that a higher number of “targeted attacks” on computers come from China than previously thought.

Researchers for Symantec found almost 30% of “malicious” emails were sent from China and that 21.3% came from the city of Shaoxing alone. They were able to identify key targets for the hackers as experts in Asian defense policy and human rights activists, strongly suggesting state involvement...


[Does anyone believe that this occurs in China, the country renown for its electronic control of its populace, without that same government being involved in it?

Point: the Chinese government is not our friend, in fact the opposite, and ignoring that has ever increasing risk to us - we need political leadership that manages in reality.]





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