Re: [ISN] Warning Issued About China Hackers

From: Jay D. Dyson (jdyson@TREACHERY.NET)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 11:25:31 PDT

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, William Knowles wrote:

> WASHINGTON Federal authorities and security companies are warning
> American businesses to protect themselves next week during a planned
> "Labor Day Strike" from Chinese hackers upset over the recent spy plane
> incident.

        While I have seen a few scans from China on the systems I manage
across multiple networks, the total number is less than 1/10th of one
percent of the volume of spam spewed from their open relays.  Hell, I get
more scanning from @home scriptmonkeys.

        At this time, the only thing I regret is that this "attack"
wasn't planned to coincide with this past April 1st.  Then I could have
put up a prank page on my own web sites saying "All Your Base Are Belong
To Wang" or something equally silly.

        Until I start seeing mass listings of such defacements on
Attrition.org or Alldas.de, I'll file this one away as yet another Hyped
Beyond Hope story.

- -Jay

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