http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-11/02/china-cyberwar By Duncan Geere Wired.co.uk 02 November 11 Amidst growing concern over electronic warfare, an Australian academic has dismissed China's cyber-warfare capabilities as "fairly rudimentary". Desmond Ball, a professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in Australia's National University argues that the country's offensive capabilities are actually pretty limited, and that its internal security has a bunch of vulnerabilities. Ball says that China has carried out a selection of high-profile hacks recently, as well as website defacements and DDoS attacks, but that those attacks have demonstrated little in the way of sophistication. "The viruses and trojan horses they have used have been fairly easy to detect and remove before any damage has been done or data stolen. There is no evidence that China's cyber-warriors can penetrate highly secure networks or covertly steal or falsify critical data," says the paper (PDF). "They would be unable to systematically cripple selected command and control, air defence and intelligence networks and databases of advanced adversaries, or to conduct deception operations by secretly manipulating the data in these networks." [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Thu Nov 03 2011 - 23:45:20 PDT
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