Saturday, April 4, 2009
Cyberspying Computer hackers in China pilfered data from India, Tibetan missions, experts say
Researchers at the University of Toronto who were asked by the Dalai Lama's office to check for malware on its computers stumbled upon what they believe is an organized spy operation, called ‘GhostNet', which has hacked into thousands of computers in 103 countries, including India and Southeast Asia.
The operation is controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, according to the report entitled ‘Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network' by a group of researchers at the Monk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, dated March 29.
The Dalai Lama condemned the cyberspying saying that regardless of who is hacking into the computers of the Tibetan government-inexile, the pilfered information was making its way to the Chinese government.
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The operation is controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, according to the report entitled ‘Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network' by a group of researchers at the Monk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, dated March 29.
The Dalai Lama condemned the cyberspying saying that regardless of who is hacking into the computers of the Tibetan government-inexile, the pilfered information was making its way to the Chinese government.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: China, computer hackers, computers, cyberspying computer hackers, Dalai Lama, tibetan government
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