China, More, Engaged In Assymetrical Cyber Warfare

22 January 2010
FOXNEWS (NEW YORK) - Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute (a computer security firm), claims that "there are [at] least 100 countries with cyber espionage capabilities." Tom Patterson, chief security officer of MagTek Inc. (manufacturer of electronic security devices), said that "the Chinese air force has an asymmetrical warfare division" whose job is to devise ways to disable government command and control systems. Asymmetrical warfare is a term that originated in the counter terrorism field to describe cyber attacks designed to destabilize governments. Google and 30 other companies were attacked in this latest hack. Companies do not like to show weaknesses and therefor they often do not report breaches. China's People's Liberation Army has been tied to many of the cyberattacks that major corporations have recently withstood. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/22/google-vs-china-tip-cyberwar/ (Reliability: Moderate)