China Tied to Cyberattack on U.S. Lab

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China Tied to Cyberattack on U.S. Lab
International Herlad Tribune | December 11, 2007

A cyberattack reported last week by one of the U.S. government's nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a confidential memorandum distributed to public and private security officials by the Department of Homeland Security.

Security researchers said the memorandum, which was obtained by a reporter from an executive at a private company, included a list of Web and Internet addresses that were linked to locations in China.

But they noted that such links did not prove that the Chinese government or Chinese citizens were involved in the attacks. In the past, intruders have compromised computers in China and then used them to disguise their true location.

Officials at the lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, said the attacks did not compromise classified information, though they acknowledged that they were still working to understand the full extent of the intrusion.

The Department of Homeland Security distributed the confidential warning to computer security officials on Wednesday after what it described as a set of "sophisticated attempts" to compromise computers used by the private sector and the government.


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