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The (Federal Agency name withheld) announced it has received
information that China will launch a hack attack during the first week of May (May 1-7). While China and the United States attempt to peacefully resolve the diplomatic standoff over the mid-air collision between the U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese jet fighter, hackers from both countries have begun to wage a shadow war on the Internet.
Computer articulate citizens of both China and the United States have begun their own war on the Internet as relations between the two powers continue to deteriorate. American hackers are urging each other to break into Web
sites hosted in China, and they say that U.S. hackers have already penetrated hundreds of Chinese Web sites.
Chinese hackers are vowing to retaliate with a week long attack on U.S.-based Web sites and computer networks, starting May 1. Security experts warn that these attacks could affect government systems and that outside of government all Web site owners and network administrators
should ensure their networks are well-protected.
"The Chinese hackers do not care who you are. They are just interested in how many sites they can hit. Basically, they are just out there collecting scalps," said "Taltos," a security consultant and hacker from Hungary who has been closely following the underground on-line discussions on the
Chinese-U.S. hack attacks. Messages posted on some of the underground Internet chat rooms indicate that U.S. hackers plan to continue the blitz they have dubbed the "ChinaKiller." And on the Chinese side, "Many people
here are frustrated with America. We want to tell you what we think is wrong, but our government is too polite. So we will say it on everyone's Internet," wrote Jia En Zhu, a 22-year-old hacker who lives in Zhongguancun, a Beijing suburb, in one of the many messages posted on the Internet.
The Chinese hack attack is planned for May 1 to 7, peaking on May 4, a Chinese holiday commemorating a demonstration, which occurred in Tiananmen Square 82 years ago, Mr. Zhu said. China's people have had access to the Internet only since 1997, but the country's computer programmers and Web
surfers have been quick to use it for political points. The Internet has been a channel for attacks, apparently by Chinese hackers, on U.S. government sites in response to the May 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and for releasing viruses that destroyed data on Taiwanese
university servers. Taltos said he wouldn't be surprised to see some new and nasty computer viruses making the rounds of the Internet during the first week of May. He said: "If this cyberwar goes forward as planned, many Internet users will be caught in the cross fire."
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information that China will launch a hack attack during the first week of May (May 1-7). While China and the United States attempt to peacefully resolve the diplomatic standoff over the mid-air collision between the U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese jet fighter, hackers from both countries have begun to wage a shadow war on the Internet.
Computer articulate citizens of both China and the United States have begun their own war on the Internet as relations between the two powers continue to deteriorate. American hackers are urging each other to break into Web
sites hosted in China, and they say that U.S. hackers have already penetrated hundreds of Chinese Web sites.
Chinese hackers are vowing to retaliate with a week long attack on U.S.-based Web sites and computer networks, starting May 1. Security experts warn that these attacks could affect government systems and that outside of government all Web site owners and network administrators
should ensure their networks are well-protected.
"The Chinese hackers do not care who you are. They are just interested in how many sites they can hit. Basically, they are just out there collecting scalps," said "Taltos," a security consultant and hacker from Hungary who has been closely following the underground on-line discussions on the
Chinese-U.S. hack attacks. Messages posted on some of the underground Internet chat rooms indicate that U.S. hackers plan to continue the blitz they have dubbed the "ChinaKiller." And on the Chinese side, "Many people
here are frustrated with America. We want to tell you what we think is wrong, but our government is too polite. So we will say it on everyone's Internet," wrote Jia En Zhu, a 22-year-old hacker who lives in Zhongguancun, a Beijing suburb, in one of the many messages posted on the Internet.
The Chinese hack attack is planned for May 1 to 7, peaking on May 4, a Chinese holiday commemorating a demonstration, which occurred in Tiananmen Square 82 years ago, Mr. Zhu said. China's people have had access to the Internet only since 1997, but the country's computer programmers and Web
surfers have been quick to use it for political points. The Internet has been a channel for attacks, apparently by Chinese hackers, on U.S. government sites in response to the May 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and for releasing viruses that destroyed data on Taiwanese
university servers. Taltos said he wouldn't be surprised to see some new and nasty computer viruses making the rounds of the Internet during the first week of May. He said: "If this cyberwar goes forward as planned, many Internet users will be caught in the cross fire."
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BTW, it's not just the government that the Chinese hackers are targeting, it's your yahoo!, your CNN.com, and all kinds of US companies. I guess it's overtime for me this weekend and next week.
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Not sure if this post is a joke or not but, last week the internet protection ZONEALARM which I use alerted me that it had blocked access from another source to my computer. The details revealed that the origin was somewhere in CHINA. I didn't save the details, kind of wish I had now.
