GhostNet - China's Cyber warfare on Tibet

[Whisp]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/meet-the-canadians-who-busted-ghostnet/article1214210/?page=all

Meet the Canadians who busted GhostNet

It was March 6, 12:33 p.m., and Nart Villeneuve was getting frustrated. The 34-year-old international relations student and part-time tech geek had tried everything to track down a piece of malicious software that had infected computers around the world, including those in the offices of the Dalai Lama.
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A team of Canadian researchers revealed this weekend a network, dubbed GhostNet, of more than 1,200 infected computers worldwide that includes such "high-value targets" as Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Indian Embassy in Kuwait, as well as a dozen computers in Canada.
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Indeed, it's hard to believe that what has now been revealed as a massive cyber breach began just a few months ago in a room at the foothills of the Himalayas, with a Canadian researcher watching a 'ghost' steal a file from the Dalai Lama.
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Mr. Walton recorded the activity and eventually returned to Toronto with some 1.2-gigabytes of raw data - countless lines of often-incomprehensible code - for Mr. Villeneuve to sift through.

The researchers at the Citizen Lab weren't new to this kind of thing. Last year, they revealed the logging of millions of text messages sent by users of a Chinese Skype service. Mr. Villeneuve had learned some tricks during that endeavour, such as searching for improperly configured servers and sifting through their directories for useful files.

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Edward Snowden is a fool.

[okaawhatever]

1. Good another one. I didn't know if the Tibetans were being spyed on with the same virus Mandiant

found. I wonder if we're catching up with China now. they've lost a good portion of their edge on inventive spyware and bots. I hope the playing field is getting leveled.

[Whisp]

2. kick