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China’s military is under attack. At least its Web site is…from hackers.
In a sign that China’s Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around the world have reported, its new Web site was attacked more than 2.3 million times within a month of going online in August. The state-run People’s Daily newspaper reported that revelation Wednesday in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Chinese defense department’s Web site, Ji Guilin.
In the report, Ji said the Web site battled down a variety of hackers and no harm was done to China’s national security. He said the Web site has boosted its network security.
Ji didn’t say where the hacker attacks originated.
Militaries elsewhere, of course, suggest sophisticated attacks on their national defense systems and secrets sometimes come from China. Articles here, here, here and here.
An October report on China’s ability to “Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation” that was prepared for U.S. authorities concluded China’s ability to conduct “informationization” — cyber snooping — appears high. The report’s summary concludes with the lines, “If Chinese operators are, indeed, responsible for even some of the current exploitation efforts targeting U.S. Government and commercial networks, then they may have already demonstrated that they possess a mature and operationally proficient [computer network operations] capability.”