Chinese cyber-attacks allegedly launched against British government departments
,----[ Quote ]
| The British NISCC warned of trojan attacks from Asia back in June 2005.
`----
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95514/from/rss09
Germany, the US, now Britain... and here you have the bank accounts of people
in India being potentially compromised as well, shortly after the bank moved
from Linux to Windows...
Indian Bank Restores Site After Malware Attack
,----[ Quote ]
| The bank has closed the site on Friday after it found that the site had been
| hacked,
`----
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070904/tc_pcworld/136716
Recently:
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
,----[ Quote ]
| The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the
| most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American
| officials.
`----
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html
German constitutional protection authorities foresee "secret service
procurement offensive"
,----[ Quote ]
| ...if Chinese attackers really had penetrated government computers, this
| would pose a risk even if no confidential data was involved. "It is possible
| to find out many things in this way - appointments, responsibilities, who is
| working on what - this is the first step in carrying out classical
| espionage," said Möller.
`----
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95236/from/rss09
Politicians want to be informed on Chinese Trojan attacks
,----[ Quote ]
| Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
| said: "If there is clear evidence that the Chinese state is responsible for
| these attacks, we cannot let the matter rest." According to a Spiegel report,
| the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that
| experts of the Chinese army have conducted the online espionage attacks
| against the Federal Chancellery, the ministry of economics, the ministry of
| research and also the ministry of foreign affairs.
`----
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94983/from/rss09
Related:
China Crafts Cyberweapons
,----[ Quote ]
| The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare
| units and developing viruses.
`----
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132284-pg,1/article.html(News)
Windows Security Hell - Another Victim: Bank of India
,----[ <3824653.5drpDRRNaJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ]
| Everything was fine, but they must have read Microsoft's 'quick facts' and
| changed (at the expense of the customers).
|
| http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bankofindia.com
|
| 67.15.253.6 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 21-May-2007
| 64.39.18.73 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 22-Jan-2005
| 204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.27 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.1.2
| mod_perl/1.24
| 14-Jan-2003
| 204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.6
| mod_perl/1.24
| 12-Sep-2002
| 204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.1pl2
| mod_perl/1.24 27-Jun-2002
| 204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
| OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 28-Jun-2001
| 204.176.140.102 unknown Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
| OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 27-Jun-2001
| 204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
| OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 22-Jan-2001
| 204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.6 Unix PHP/3.0.7 17-Nov-2000
|
| Here is what happened days ago:
|
| Breaking: Bank of India seriously compromised
|
| http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-bank-of-india-seriously.html
|
| How the Online Trust Model is Broken - The Bank of India.com attack
|
| ,----[ Quote ]
| | Manually entering the addresses into a browser will load some of them,
| | suggesting that those upstream malware sources are active (others have
| | already been shut down).
| `----
|
|
http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/08/31/265/How_the_Online_Trust_Model_is_Broken_-_The_Bank_of_India.com_attack
`----
|
|
