[pchelpers] News:China's Cyber Attacks Signal New Battlefield Is Online

September 18, 2007
Although a cyber war has yet to be declared, there have been plenty of
online skirmishes 
By Larry Greenemeier 


The uproar over claims that the People's Republic of China launched a
series of network-based cyber attacks earlier this month against the
U.K., France, Germany, and the U.S. has died down. But few expect China
to back off efforts to gain the upper hand in the battle of bits and
bytes. China's own stated military goals include improving the country's
ability to wage information warfare.

The cyber attacks against the U.S. stand out because security
researchers have traced them back to the Chinese government. "Normally
it is not possible to attribute the source of an attack, because source
addresses can be spoofed," says Alan Paller, director of research at the
SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute in Bethesda, Md.,
which trains and certifies technology workers in cyber security. In
China's case, though, analysts tracked a series of 2005 cyber assaults
against U.S. computers--dubbed "Titan Rain"--to 20 computer workstations
in China's Guangdong province, Paller says.

More here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=1A9C210F-E7F2-99DF-3C85F17B1680980D&chanID=sa007
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