Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Australia: China's Cyber Raid on Agencies

Patrick Walters writes on Australian IT:

China has allegedly tried to hack into highly classified government computer networks in Australia and New Zealand as part of a broader international operation to glean military and commercial secrets from Western nations.

The Howard Government yesterday would neither confirm nor deny that its agencies, including the Defence Department, had been subject to cyber attack from China, but government sources acknowledge that thwarting such assaults is a continuing challenge.

"It's a serious problem, it's ongoing and it's real," one senior government source told The Australian.

Western intelligence experts say that China has also targeted the US, Canada, Germany and Japan as part of its global intelligence-gathering effort.

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