from good morning silicon valley:
* Security consultant Dan Egerstad was poking around online the way security consultants do when he stumbled across more than 100 e-mail log-ins for employees of embassies belonging to India, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Iran. The potential damage may not be all that great, but it was a disconcerting find. "I hope this makes them take action. Hopefully faster than ever before, and I hope they become a bit more aware of security issues," Egerstad said.
* Thanks to a heads-up from Alex Eckelberry at Sunbelt Software, the home page of the Bank of India is now cleaned of surreptitious code that attempted to install a laundry list of malware onto visitors' computers. The code was apparently the handiwork of the innocuously named Russian Business Network, a notorious criminal enterprise.
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Digital security - or rather exploitation of vulnerabilities is something that is central to Chinese strategy.
They call it "hurling the assassins mace" at specific pressure points in competitors modern economies. Banks and embassies are included - as items such as
- Air traffic control
- Process & control monitoring networks for electricity grids
- law enforcement radio frequency waves and associated devices
- emergency response & disaster recovery systems and networks
The Chinese think - quite rightly- that they can disable competitor economies with tremendous downstream effect. Read any web security piece - the maximum hackers/crackers types operate from out of China. Paid for by the Only Party via the US trade deficits
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