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China Attacks!
By: Harish
It all started on the day when India’s National Security Advisor, M.K Narayanan,claiming that hackers from China have targeted computers in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and other government departments.
He said that they were targeted on December 15 the same date that US companies reported cyber attacks from China. He said the attack was in the form of an e-mail with a PDF attachment containing a “Trojan” virus that carries out some functions which allows hacker to access a computer remotely, accessing emails and passwords and download or delete files. After detecting the virus, officials were asked not to log on until it was eliminated. “This was not the first instance of an attempt to hack into our computers,” Mr. Narayanan said.
The mail was routed through several multi-proxy servers thus obliterating the trail.
China on this issue commented that, “I can say that these accusations are groundless,” foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters when asked to comment on National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan’s reported comments that Chinese hackers may be involved in a December 15 attempt to penetrate Indian government computers, including that of his office.
“The Chinese government is firmly against hacking activities and will deal with relevant cases in accordance with the law,” Ma said.
He also claimed that China itself was the “biggest victim” of hacking activities.
This was after a week after Google threatened to close its operations and offices in China following attempts to hack into gmail accounts of around 20 US, China and Europe based Chinese human rights activists.
The US should respect facts and stop unreasonable accusations on China in the name of so-called Internet freedom, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said while commenting on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s demand that Beijing lift restrictions on citizens’ use of the Internet.
“The US side had criticized China’s policies on Internet administration, alluding that China restricts Internet freedom. We firmly oppose such words and deeds, which were against the facts and would harm the China-US relations,” Ma said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website.
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