Chinese Cyber Attacks Target White House, Presidential Candidates

WONG:
The cyber-espionage attacks on the Obama and McCain campaign computer networks this summer, as first reported by Newsweek, may be a foreshadowing of what to expect along campaign trails of the future.

Large quantities of information were downloaded from both campaign networks.

It appears that the hackers were looking for information that might be useful in any future negotiations with whichever administration would occupy the White House.

Newsweek said the Obama team was told only that a foreign entity was responsible for the hacking, but the Financial Times reported that U.S. government cyber experts suspect the attacks originated from China.

A senior U.S. official told the Financial Times that Chinese hackers were responsible for multiple cyber attacks on White House computer networks this year. Each attack lasted long enough for e-mails between government officials to be stolen before computer experts could do damage control.

The official said that Chinese cyber attacks are characterized by the grain of sands approach which entails combing through a lot of mostly low-level information to find a few small gems.

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[jasongittens100]

china sucks, and so does its people. death to them all....

[SmokeyCough]

@Kr4zyAc3 China is a fucking shithole. That's why you wrote that in english.

[DeadSilence2009]

A good way to provke a 3rd world war and cutting off china from the usa.. why blame china.. i like the asian girls grrrr

[Kr4zyAc3]

Go China we gonna fuck any country in cyber wars

[mastadon1976]

The next big war may very well be fought in cyberspace.

Fuck China and the Russians.

[1981z28camaro]

oh, I see, a reason to invade China, and build a Rothschild Central Bank..

[vlad995]

very nice! and Obama ROCKS!!

i voted him!