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New Zealand: Foreign Spies Hacking into Government Computers

Hank Schouten writes in The (New Zealand) Dominion Post:

Government computer systems have been hacked into by foreign governments, the country's chief spymaster says.

Government departments' websites have been attacked, information has been stolen and hard-to-detect software has been installed that could be used to take control of computer systems, Security Intelligence Service director Warren Tucker said.

In his first interview since taking up the post in November, Mr Tucker said there was evidence that foreign governments were responsible for the attacks.

He would not discuss what country was responsible but referred to comments by Canada's security service about Chinese spying activities.

Russia and China have been implicated in attacks on the British parliament's computer system.

posted by Fergie @ 9/10/2007 01:51:00 PM