China wants you!\u00a0 Or at least your sensitive computer data…\u00a0 This is a story of potential identity theft on a grand scale.\u00a0 While the details seem small in scale most scouting missions are small and seem insignificant.\u00a0 Bearing that in mind here’s what has me fired up…<\/p>\n
Once again the Chinese government has been caught “Red<\/strong>” handed testing its espionage capabilities and Western detection capabilities.\u00a0 The recent incident involves a pair of Trojan horse (malicious unauthorized programs) on new Maxtor Hard Drives before they left the factory.\u00a0 The function of these Trojans was to steal passwords and then “phone home” to a pair of websites hosted in Beijing reporting all data recorded on theses Trojaned drives.\u00a0 The Trojaned drives are Seagate Technology, Maxtor Basics 3200, 500GB drives.\u00a0\u00a0 Approximately 1800 of the Trojaned drives were shipped from the factory with 300 being sold before the problem was detected.<\/p>\n The Taiwanese government’s security service detected the problem and issued a warning this weekend.\u00a0 Their investigation uncovered the link to China and suspects Chinese authorities are responsible for planting the Trojan software on the drives in the factory.\u00a0 Seagate Technologies attempted to distance itself from the allegations again China stating it had no proof of Chinese government involvement.\u00a0 Internet logs (records) show that the information was sent to 2 Chinese sites registered with one of China’s largest domain registrars using what appears to be bogus information.<\/p>\n This latest story seems to demonstrate a dangerous trend in Chinese activity that one has to be blind (or corrupt) to not see.\u00a0 From hacking the Pentagon<\/a> and German Government Offices<\/a> to showing off their military advances<\/a> the Chinese government is increasingly flexing its muscles and testing its abilities<\/a>.\u00a0 When you couple these types of events with the massive military buildup<\/a> in China over the past decade few historians disagree about the potential future threat to world peace.\u00a0 Of course there is no public outcry, no Congressional or Presidential complaint or investigation.\u00a0 Instead we will increase the worker visa program and continue to pump billions a year from our economy to theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China wants you!\u00a0 Or at least your sensitive computer data…\u00a0 This is a story of potential identity theft on a grand scale.\u00a0 While the details seem small in scale most scouting missions are small and seem insignificant.\u00a0 Bearing that in mind here’s what has me fired up… Once again the Chinese government has been caught