CNN report on Chinese Hackers

CNN report on Chinese Hackers
Mar 10, 2008 01:48
FRANKENSTEIN Points: Join Date: Nov 29, 2004 Status: offline	CNN published a news report written byJohn Vause about Chinese hackers. The report claimed that they had an interview with Chinese hackers in Zhoushan Island south of Shanghai. CNN says their news staff met the Hackers near a Chinese naval hub. This report echos the Pentagon's report on China's military power released on March 4th this year. Let's see how CNN report the news. After that, let me know what you think about the " Chinese Hacker Threat".

Mar 10, 2008 01:48

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CNN published a news report written byJohn Vause about Chinese hackers. The report claimed that they had an interview with Chinese
hackers in Zhoushan Island south of Shanghai. CNN says their news staff met the Hackers near a Chinese naval hub. This report echos the Pentagon's report on China's military power released on March 4th this year. Let's see how CNN report the news. After that, let me know what you think about the " Chinese Hacker Threat".

Mar 10, 2008 14:31

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There are many issues wrapped up within your post and the report really muddies the water because of the reporter lacked knowledge of Internet security.

The Chinese Hackers he interviewed host a website for what we call "script kiddies." It is unlikely that "script kiddies" could break in to the Pentagon and steal information. However, the scripts found on hacker websites are often very effective against insecure servers; and the denial of service attacks the "script kiddies" run can be a real pain.

If the Chinese Hackers interviewed DID break into the Pentagon and steal sensitive information, they are probably skilled computer programmers - not "script kiddies."

Were they paid by the Chinese government? Hackers are frequently paid to break in websites. Did the Chinese government pay them? How truthful is that Chinese Hacker? Is he trying to build his reputation? There is no way for us to know if the Chinese government paid the kid.

Is it possible that there is an army of highly-skilled, military hackers poised to launch attacks against governments of the world? You bet there is. The military organizations of the world would not be doing a good job for their country if they did not build such armies. Are there "freelance techno-soldiers of fortune" who will attack military targets from their computers for money? You bet there are.

Are the Chinese sinister players in this game? I do not know.

Mar 11, 2008 04:59	#2
GUEST8805	Did the Pentagon have any evidences that Chinese hackers had stolen some American military intelligence? If Chinese hackers really attacked the Pentagon, it could only prove that Pentagon's network security was too vulnerable.

Mar 11, 2008 20:25	#3
SHESGOTTOBE Points: Join Date: Nov 23, 2007 Status: Offline	There is no such thing as secure network, just as there is no such thing as anything secured in real life. Even the people who manage the Great Firewall know that.

Mar 12, 2008 23:36

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There are secure networks SHESGOTTOBE, but very few of them. You certainly cannot compare the objectives of the Great Firewall of China with a corporate network or even the Pentagon of the USA.

Evasion of the Great Firewall or an attack that breaks the Great Firewall is a failure. The Great Firewall learns, so an occasional penetration is not truly a failure.

Disrupting service to a corporate network or using it to purloin important data is a failure. The standards for the Pentagon's network security are much, much higher.

Trust me when I tell you that the chance of an advanced hacker penetrating a world-class corporate network or the Pentagon is only slightly better than my chances of punching Jet Li in the nose ;-)

...but that is a frontal attack...

Penetration of secure networks is most often the fault of an disloyal user of the secure network...or one who was duped by a social engineer.

Of course, there are a few hacking geniuses and in those cases all bets are off.

Mar 24, 2008 03:40

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Just some thing you guys in US will not know, a newspaper in China interviewed this hacker after that, he denied what is contained in CNN report, he said what the journalists talked to him was trying to financially sponsor him and asked a couple of question about hacking over internet website and he himself only claimed that there is not network in the world is safe. And he concurred that while the journalist asked whether network in Pentagon was also unsafe. He also said that CNN will give them more money if they said that Chinese military authority financially aided them before.

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