[nsp-sec] china -> india attacks?

[Jose Nazario]

folks

saw this in my morning reading:

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/china-mounts-cyber-attacks-on-indian-sites/64562-3.html

i haven't been able to see any evidence of this in my ddos commands, 
suggesting that i may be missing some C&Cs.

anyone have any info?

China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites
CNN-IBN

New Delhi: India's cyber security is under threat. For more than a year 
now, China has been regularly attacking the Indian cyberspace.

Several big attacks have been sourced to China over the last few months 
include one on National Informatics Centre, which was aimed at the 
National Security Council, and on the MEA.

Security experts fear apart from giving China a good idea of the content, 
it will also enable them to disable the networks during a conflict.

Off the records senior government officials admit that these attacks are 
not isolated incidents of hacking but a more sophisticated and methodical 
one.

India though has a dedicated team to deflect these attacks, is yet to come 
up with an aggressive strategy to counter them.

Earlier in April, Chinese hackers targeted the Indian embassy computers in 
Beijing on Thursday.

Official sources confirmed these attempts but said classified information 
has not been compromised.

They said computers storing sensitive data are standalone systems not 
linked to the Internet. CERT-IN, the official watchdog that tracks hacking 
of government networks, has refused to comment on the matter.

No website is 100 per cent safe. There are websites with high level of 
security but there is always some weakness, Chinas cyber hacker Xiao Chen.

Chen and his friends run a hacking website from China. It claims 10,000 
registered users and 50,000 hits a day, thanks to the useful advice and 
free software it offers for breaking into computer systems.

Chen boasts two of his colleagues have hacked into the Pentagon. CNN has 
no way of verifying that.

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