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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2009-09-28 5:13:53
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0909280012280.20013 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.financialexpress.com/news/chinese-checkers/521967/
By Gurmeet Kanwal
Financial Express
Sept 27, 2009
In all the hype and hoopla surrounding China's incursions across the
Line of Actual Control (LAC) into Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh,
a more sinister plan to attack cyber networks has gone almost completely
unnoticed in India. In front page news reports published abroad
recently, Chinese cyber spies were reported to have hacked into
computers and stolen documents from hundreds of government and private
offices around the world, including those of the Indian embassy in the
US. Earlier it had been reported that the Chinese army uses more than
10,000 cyber warriors with degrees in IT to maintain an e-vigil on
China's borders. "Chinese soldiers now swipe cards and work on laptops
as they monitor the border with great efficiency… electronic sentinels
functioning 24 hours a day." On June 23, 2009, Robert Gates, the US
Secretary of Defence, authorised the creation of a new military command
that will develop offensive cyber-weapons and defend command and control
networks of the US armed forces against computer attacks.
While information about the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) cyber
warriors has begun to appear in the public domain only recently, PLA
watchers globally have known for long about China's well conceived
doctrine on information operations and cyberwar. China's cyberwar
doctrine is designed to level the playing field in a future war with
better equipped Western armed forces that rely on Revolution in Military
Affairs (RMA) technologies and enjoy immense superiority in terms of
weapons platforms and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
(ISR) and command and control networks.
In the first decade of the new century, China's Central Military
Commission (CMC) had called for a detailed study of the concept of
"people's war under conditions of informationisation", implying
increasing attention to the application of IT to the conduct of
conventional conflict. Since then the scope of the cyber war doctrine
has been expanded to develop the capabilities necessary to take control
of all the major networks that drive the world's economic engines. .
Analysts of the PLA have called the ongoing RMA an informationised
military revolution with Chinese characteristics. Informationisation
relates to the PLA's ability to adopt information technologies to
command, intelligence, training and weapon systems. The PLA is seeking
to contest the information battle space with its space-based, airborne,
naval and ground-based surveillance and intelligence gathering systems
and its new anti-satellite, anti-radar, electronic warfare and
information warfare systems.
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