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Australia: Chinese Spies Target PM's e-Mail

Patrick Walters writes on Australian IT:

Chinese spies have directly targeted Kevin Rudd, repeatedly attempting to infiltrate prime ministerial email and mobile phone communications.

The Australian understands Mr Rudd and his travelling party were under constant cyber attack during his latest trip to China, in August last year, with authorities trying to access the laptop computers and mobile phones used by the Australians.

The blatant nature of Beijing's electronic espionage is understood to have alarmed the Rudd Government and led to a further tightening of communications security procedures for senior government figures travelling to China.

Intelligence sources said Beijing had made repeated attempts to break into government and business IT networks, as well as foreign embassies based in Canberra.

posted by Fergie @ 4/03/2009 12:13:00 AM