‘We didn’t hack Canadian computers’: China
p2pnet view Security:- Someone hacked the Canadian government’s leaky computer systems, said p2pnet yesterday, quoting the CBC, which today states:
“Foreign cyber hackers who attacked federal government departments could have been looking for information on weapon technology and natural resource policy, an expert in China’s cyber spying program says.
“The attacks, revealed by CBC News, targeted the Finance Department, the Treasury Board and Defence Research and Development Canada”, says the story.
“It’s unclear what information the hackers, believed to [sic] based in China, were after.”
But “China has denied any responsibility for the attacks”, says the post, adding:
“The attack gave hackers access to highly classified information and was first detected in early January. The attacks forced the government departments that were targeted to disconnect temporarily from the internet.”
Auditor-general Sheila Fraser (right),”first raised the alarm” about Canada’s weak security in 2002, said the CBC yesterday, quoting her as warning:
“There are access controls that need to be fixed; there are a whole series of minimum security issues that are not being dealt with. There are vulnerabilities. Government needs to fix them.”
She checked again three years later “and found not much had changed”, it says, and this time, “It is important that these things be dealt with and be fixed — the government is vulnerable to attacks”, she declared.
Evidently, says the CBC, “it still is.”
p2pnet – Canadian government computers hacked, February 17, 2011
states – Hackers after weapon information: expert, February 18, 2011
CBC – Foreign hackers attack Canadian government, February 17, 2011
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February 18th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
It’s a bunch of B.S. news-media scaremongering. From the same idiots that brought you the scary Russians that we need to spend billions with crony-contractors to protect ourselves against.
I suspect some very lucrative B.S. contracts to the likes of HBGary will be shortly filled here in Canada. Because, you know, those scary Chinese hackers on steriods are going hack our internets and cause the power grid to go down and planes to fall out of the sky.
The only REAL news here is that the mainstream media and gov’t bureaucrats are a bunch of retards that don’t think critically about anything before parroting it to the dullards at home that still have TVs. Look at the UBB fiasco, where 99.99% of people involved don’t know an ATM frame from their azzhole, and the remaining ones don’t understand the business world.
February 18th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
ROFL … that’s what they get for using Microcrap / Microsoft
But in reality Most high profile attacks are done by security agencies themselves [CIA, NSA, ISRAEL, Pentagon, RCMP, etc.] as justification for tightening Public internet, taking away Freedoms and creating Unlawful Legislation.
If it’s in mass media/news you know it’s been planned for ages. Look to super rich for who done it … as they do massive social engineering. http://metanoia-films.org/index.php [need to wait for minute to get movies but well worth it]
Solutions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
February 18th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Something tells me this will end up with more of my tax dollars being spent with some politically well-connected I.T. security firms. Probably the same firm that did this “attack” from one of a zillion Chinese proxy servers.
Sleezy stuff is going on just out of view people….. let’s see who’s first to connect some dots. I’ll give you a clue: watch who gets rich off this.
February 20th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Chinese have one more time targeted the Canadian government!
In a country were police is everywhere, there is no such think as hackers. The ones who targeted the Canadian House of Commons are Chinese governmental informaticians performing their duty as usual. Just one other day at work. The question is what to think about the Canada’s secret cyber spy agency who tracked the hacking operation to the Chinese embassy in Ottawa and to computer servers in Beijing. This attack, like all others before, should have been stop and not denounce. United States spends billions on cyber security, while Canada has a budget of $90 million. So no allied should give any information to Canada which it doesn’t want China to know!