Gmail Hacked, Us-china at The Threshold Cyber war
by Cyber attacks from China suspected to trap the occupant of the White House.
Google suspicion directed at Chinese hackers, as if traced, hackers turned out to be in the area of Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, eastern China. Jinan, which is located about 400 kilometers south of Beijing, the headquarters of the technical reconnaissance agencies owned by the People’s Liberation Army, one of the largest armies in the world.
The place was identified as an area related to the attacks directed against Google’s system last year. Google itself says that some victims of the action is already known and have been secured. meanwhile, the U.S. investigation agency FBI is still investigating this case.
However, the Chinese government rejected the accusations of Google. Yesterday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Hong Lei, denied. ”China itself has become a victim of hacking attacks, and the government has largely focused on cyber security,” he said.
Furthermore, Hong Lei instead turning point. ”The statement that says that the Chinese government supports piracy attacks, has ulterior motives.”
At the China Youth Daily - one of the papers that are controlled by the Communist Party of China – the Chinese military academy even wrote an article which claimed that the incident was an attack or use of the Internet to promote regime change in Arab countries, in fact conducted by the U.S. government.
“Lately, the Internet tornado that swept the world … massively influential and shake the earth. Behind all this, lay the shadow of America,” says the article, written Baoxian Ye Zheng and Zhao, of the Academy of Military Science.
Both are even identified this as a preparation to face the cyber war. ”Facing this Internet war warming, all countries and the military can not be passive, but must prepare themselves for the Internet war,” the article said, quoted from the site ABCNews .
They added that if nuclear war is a strategy in the industrial era, the war is the product of the Internet information age. This conflict, will greatly threaten national security, and a proof of the existence of a country.
In the virtual world, China is often in conflict with the state and western companies. A number of government claims to have become the target of cyber attacks from China, despite Beijing’s then routinely denied the accusation.
State panda, also known as a content blocker and western sites, thus earning the nickname “ Great Firewall of China ”. Police there also exert control over the Internet to suppress content that is considered illegal and subversive.
This week the U.S. government sets, cyber attacks were classified as ‘war’ or not. When these tensions escalate, of course not impossible if this incident will continue on cyber warfare.
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