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China Suspected of Hacking Organizations Involved in South China Sea Dispute (japantimes.co.jp) 57

Posted by msmash from the security-blues dept.
Jesse Johnson, writing for The Japan Times: The ongoing dispute over the South China Sea has apparently spilled over into cyberspace recently, as hackers believed to be from China have attacked government and private-sector organizations linked to the row over the key waterway, a new analysis has found. Using malicious software, hackers have tried to swipe sensitive information from the Philippines and other targets, according to a report released last week by Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure. Notable targets included the Philippines Department of Justice, the organizers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and an unidentified major international law firm involved in last month's landmark South China Sea arbitration decision at The Hague, the report said. The Department of Justice played a key role in the case and reports ahead of a November 2015 APEC event in the Philippines had said leaders attending the summit would discuss the South China Sea issue.
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  • China does not mess around. Its leaders know what they want to do and have the long-term vision and fortitude to see it through.

    • I just made a how cool is it that China is building islands post in the consumed resources day summary. They are also making forays into engineering the weather. My brother married a Chinese woman, but that's beside the point and more of a full disclosure issue. But anyways, I believe along with Jefferson that the Constitution is largely a bad thing and we all need to have a time out and sit down and discuss what form of governance in the world will best serve all our purposes. We may end up with a class of

  • Dear Leader (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Wish USA's Dear Leader had the balls to do something about it.

    Being an independent who voted for Obama twice, his foreign policy is simply the worst. Most of the world's problems with everyone running us over in some cases, literally, is the worst. This is another clear example of such a terrible policy.

    • This is not a joke -- other countries is one thing, but the high seas must remain free and open to trade according to international treaty and convention and laws of the sea.

      And that means sailing inside the 12 mile military limits on these artificial islands, which are expressly not recognized as granting economic or military exclusion.

      • This is not a joke -- other countries is one thing, but the high seas must remain free and open to trade according to international treaty and convention and laws of the sea.

        And that means sailing inside the 12 mile military limits on these artificial islands, which are expressly not recognized as granting economic or military exclusion.

        You are assuming they will respect international law. Bad assumption.

    • Dear Leader likes his china phone and non us h-1b's workers at apple.

    • " literally, is the worst"

      No it isn't. It may not be ideal, but it isn't the worst. It's been a bit of a trade off. Obama has been in power for 8 years and managed to not get us into any major wars in that time. On the downside, a few of our rivals have been able to bully us and our bungling of Iraq has led to establishment of ISIS.

      Sure, we've done some bombing runs here and there but no major wars of too big of a threat to us. Libby has probably been Obama's "biggest war"- which is pretty impressive f

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by swb ( 14022 )

        Would you buy degraded status quo?

        Maybe to his favor, Obama hasn't gotten into any new conflicts, but it seems kind of funny to judge what he hasn't done as an affirmative accomplishment. By that standard, you could judge him by other things he hasn't done, too, and many of them could be negative, failure-to-accomplish-anything kinds of changes. I didn't commit mass murder at lunch, but nobody's giving me a peace prize for what i didn't do.

        Maybe I underestimate the power of doing nothing (although God kno

    • Our 'Dear Leader' is projecting Naval power in that area even as we speak and working with diplomatic partners in the area.

      That's what you would expect a rational nation to do.

      Don't worry, just vote for Trump and you'll see what the irrational actors do, which is start a trade war (or a real one). Have fun!

      • you'll see what the irrational actors do, which is start a trade war

        We're in, and losing, a trade war right now. How are you not clear on this?

        • How are we in and losing a trade war?

          • How are we in and losing a trade war?

            We are honoring our end of international trade agreements that other signatory countries disregard, and we are trading with countries that are doing some significantly damaging currency manipulation. Which you know, so that can't be a surprise. Was that a rhetorical question?

          • Replying to myself so to address other two replies. The US also does their fair share of market protection, ones that have been found to be in the wrong by the international trade bodies. We also do a lot of currency manipulation (quantitative easing, low interest rates, various insurance schemes, etc) but not to the extent of others nor the types that impact the global confidence in our currency.

            China/India/Japan/etc devaluing their currency is in effect stealing from their people's labor value and giving

        • If you actually think this is a trade war now you've lost all sense of reality. I mean that's literally the only way to frame the 'arm chair' presidents in this country.

          It's akin to somebody who served stateside during Vietnam saying they've 'seen the horrors of war'. It's that level of asinine.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Agripa ( 139780 )

      Don't worry. After you vote for Hillary, her foreign policy will be twice as effective.

  • Isn't Everyone? (Score:3)

    by ranton ( 36917 ) on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:15PM (#52672749)

    When are we going to stop pretending any technologically capable countries aren't actively spying on governments and companies whenever it suits their interests?

    The answers to the following two questions should always be assumed to be the same:
    1) Can the country benefit from hacking [insert organization]?
    2) Is the country hacking [insert organization]?

  • Honestly, I would have been a lot more surprised if they weren't discovered trying to hack their perceived opposition. Based on history, it is the first thing I expect them to do after they make their veiled public threats.

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