[pchelpers] Article:Help! Chinese Hackers are Attacking my PC

Two things happened recently that, taken together, point out just how
dangerous the Internet is. 

Cyber security was all over the news as Defense Secretary Robert Gates
approved the creation of a new department in the U.S. government, called
U.S. Cyber Command, to handle the security of computer networks run by
the Department of Defense.

Just that morning, I had installed a new router on my LAN, a Linksys
WRT54GL.

An article in The Wall Street Journal brought these two things together
for me. A story about the new US CyberCommand department said "The
Pentagon initiative will reshape the military's efforts to protect
networks from attacks by hackers, especially those from China and
Russia."

A router protects a LAN from just these types of attacks, so I checked
the activity log in my new router to see how it was doing in this
respect. 

More here:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3829211/Help!
+Chinese+Hackers+are+Attacking+my+PC.htm
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John Durham
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Server hosted on Ubuntu 4.10
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