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Hackers who broke into the International Monetary Fund's computer system may have been backed by a nation state, according to security experts.
They point to the sophisticated nature of the attack and the resources needed to develop it.
it was "a targeted attack" with code written specifically to give a nation state a "digital insider presence" on the IMF network.
"Any attack that shows money, time and resources went on it points to a state attack. States and their intelligence agencies have
Originally posted by g146541
It is always government behind all attacks anywhere, but fear not.
Citizens will die for this.
It is a spiffy cover story though isn't it?
Originally posted by Swizzy
reply to post by Fractured.Facade
Enlighten us.
Originally posted by brill
It does reek of China but that just seems so convenient.
brill
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
If you really knew what the Chinese are up to, and ultimately planning to do, you'd all panic... Literally.
Originally posted by hillynilly
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
If you really knew what the Chinese are up to, and ultimately planning to do, you'd all panic... Literally.
I think China is in panic mode because when we DEFAULT
on this huge ass debt to them their going to go loco...
Originally posted by hillynilly
I think China is in panic mode because when we DEFAULT
on this huge ass debt to them their going to go loco...
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by hillynilly
I think China is in panic mode because when we DEFAULT
on this huge ass debt to them their going to go loco...
what Chinese debt ???
they have already dumped 97%
of it already. Who they sold it to
is the trillion dollar question.
As of the close of business on Thursday, the total U.S. debt was $14.34 trillion, according to the Daily Treasury Statement. Of that, approximately $9.74 trillion was debt held by the public and approximately $4.61 trillion was “intragovernmental” debt.
a teenager in maldives logs on to an indian university using his cousin's (a student at the university) account and manages to find logs of his cousin's activities while the latter was playing around with some hackers in tibet. the logs point to serious vulnerabilities that the tibetans have found on some servers based in an undisclosed location in china. these servers have since then been infected with trojans and backdoors and the tibetans have been using them for the past few months already. it turns out that these servers are by themselves hosting the software used by some chinese students to control pc's in the US for blog-posting purposes. now these computers in the US have also been infected with trojans from bulgaria, mostly because the owners of these computers keep on watching porn and downloading free stuff on the internet.
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Ah, but this one was the Chinese.... They are far better at covering their tracks than the boys and girls at the CIA, and other government's "intelligence agencies".
If you really knew what the Chinese are up to, and ultimately planning to do, you'd all panic... Literally.