Be afraid, be very afraid…
“Citing sources in the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community, the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was” behind the recently disclosed cyber-assaults on Google and other pro civil-rights US based companies.
Additionally, VeriSign believes that the Chinese government was behind an earlier attack in July of 2009. With the continued issues around food and toy safety, civil rights and now privacy concerns, why are we continuing to do business with the Chinese?
Oh yeah, they are financing our country right now.
China is the largest foreign lender to the US government. At the end of April, China’s holding of Treasury securities was $763.5bn (Japan was the second biggest holder, with $686bn).
Damn.
via Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack
