Statist scum: Chinese hackers strike New York Times

For the past four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.

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After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defences to block them, The Times and computer security experts have expelled the attackers and kept them from breaking back in.

The attacks appear to be part of a broader computer espionage campaign against US media companies that have reported on Chinese leaders and corporations.

The timing of the attacks coincided with the reporting for a Times investigation, published online October 25, that found that the relatives of Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister, had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.

Security experts hired by The Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times' network. They broke into the email accounts of its Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, who wrote the reports on Wen's relatives, and Jim Yardley, The Times' South Asia bureau chief in India, who previously worked as bureau chief in Beijing.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/chinese-hackers-strike-new-york-times-20130131-2dmvp.html#ixzz2JXgdrzuu

Statist scum: Chinese hackers strike New York Times

Statist scum: Chinese hackers strike New York Times

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