Potential security breach by China?

[OhioChick]

June 02, 2008

A government laptop used by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez may have been breached during a visit to Bejing last December.

U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied information from Gutierrez's laptop and then tried to hack into Commerce Department computers, according to published reports.

The laptop was left unattended during the trip, and it is believed the content was copied at that time, reports said.

Since December, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has been called in to work on Commerce Department computers at least eight times; three of those calls were allegedly in response to possible data security break-ins.


http://www.scmagazineus.com/Potential-security-breach-by-China/article/110790/

[bitchkitty]

1. Left unattended - now that was smart! n/t

[OhioChick]

3. Bright one, 'eh?

:)

[angstlessk]

2. that is not a security breach BY China..it is a security breach BY the USofA