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Pro-Tibet Organizations Attacked Online

According to a Washington Post story, some number of groups sympathetic to Tibet have found themselves targeted for cyber attacks that attempt to disrupt operations and steal information:

A handful of recent targeted attacks shared the same Internet resources and tactics in common with those used in a spate of digital assaults against number of major U.S. defense contractors, said Maarten Van Horenbeeck, an incident handler with the SANS Internet Storm Center, Bethesda, Md.-based organization that tracks online security trends.
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The attacks on pro-Tibet organizations are not the first to be tied to computers in China. The Washington Post reported March 21 that the FBI is investigating whether hackers in China targeted a group working for human rights in Darfur, the war-torn province of Sudan. China has economic and strategic interests in the African nation's oil fields.

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posted by Erik Sherman @ 4:55 PM