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Subject: [ISN] China hacking video shows glimpse of Falun Gong attack tool
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-08-24 7:56:07
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1108240255540.742 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219437/China_hacking_video_shows_glimpse_of_Falun_Gong_attack_tool
By Michael Kan, Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
August 23, 2011
The clip shows up without explanation, lasting for about six seconds
during a rather mundane documentary about hacking produced by the
state-sponsored China Central Television
The video appears to give a peek at a state-sponsored hacking tool used
to disrupt the operations of a spiritual movement that the government of
China considers a threat to its authority. The video does not explain
where the tool comes from. With a few clicks, the on-screen computer
fires up a custom-built attack program, apparently giving the user a way
to knock out any one of a range of websites affiliated with the
movement, Falun Gong.
Computers affiliated with Falun Gong and Tibetan dissidents have been
targeted in online attacks for years, in what many security experts
considered to be an organized hacking campaign sponsored by the Chinese
government.
China has consistently denied these allegations, but the fact that a
Falun Gong attack tool has popped up in a state-sponsored video raises
new questions.
[...]
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