Cyber cold war?

[firefox_fan]

General: China taking on U.S. in cyber arms race

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday.

"They're the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, 'We're looking to do that,"' 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert Elder told reporters.

Elder is to head a new three-star cyber command being set up at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, already home to about 25,000 military personnel involved in everything from electronic warfare to network defense.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/13/china.cyberspace.reut/index.html

[GregD]

1. SQL Injection

is a popular methosd of attacking databases. I host a number of web sites that run databases, and some of those (including a popular election integrity site) frequently come under attack.

It got so bad a couple years ago that I wrote scripts to identify and quarantine the IPs from which such attacks originate. That tool allows me to easily look up the nation associated with those offending IPs.

Almost 100% of the attacks are from China.

[firefox_fan]

2. Wow, but could it be just script kiddies?

I mean, kids trying sripts they get on the web...