China Cyber - Spies Target India, Dalai Lama: Report

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Reuters

By REUTERS
Published: April 6, 2010
Filed at 10:22 p.m. ET

BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) - A cyber-espionage group based in southwest China stole documents from the Indian Defense Ministry and emails from the Dalai Lama's office, Canadian researchers said in a report on Tuesday.

The cyber-spies used popular online services, including Twitter, Google Groups and Yahoo Mail, to hack into computers, ultimately directing them to communicate with command and control servers in China.

The report, entitled "Shadows in the Clouds", said the spy network was likely run by individuals with connections to the Chinese criminal underworld. Information might have been passed to branches of the Chinese government, it added.

"We did not find any hard evidence that links these attacks to the Chinese government," said Nart Villeneuve, who, like the other authors of the report, is a researcher at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/04/06/world/international-us-china-india-cyber-spying.html?ref=world

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1. Meanwhile, the US slashes funding for education.

Education is the most important thing for ensuring security of our nation - this proves it. Wars will not be won on battlefields or through urban warfare. It will be done online.