Now CHINA complains of surge in cyber-attacks

It wuz him what dun it

"Most recently, a detailed report from US defence contractor Northrop Grumman revealed that the People’s Liberation Army is tooling up with advanced information warfare capabilities, and warned that academia and commercial technology firms are helping to provide it with significant R&D resources."

Please, we've been here a number of times before, every nation that can do this, does it.

"It would be naïve to think that the US, UK and other nations are snoozing while China-sponsored attackers target their data."

It would be naïve to think that 'the US, UK and other nations' aren't doing exactly the same to the Chinese or other nations deemed in some way 'hostile' (and to a few of our 'friends' to a lesser extent).

"The latest stats from the Chinese government may be slightly exaggerated but shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand"

While few would take everything in there as gospel I'd suggest that only an idiot would dismiss them out of hand, not that there probably aren't a fair few of those. Surely anyone with even an inkling of international politics and/or cyber crime trends knows there's more than a germ of truth in much of the report.

Agreed Sandman, you need only look at CIA, MI5, Mossad agents being caught in each others countries as well as their rival nations, with Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Palestine etcetera always finding each others agents in their backyards too.

How sad in 2012 we can still draw pretty accurate "battlelines" among countries.

Bothered?

No, you will find few people who care.

What go's around comes around.

Light-Trapping Singularity Calling the Kettle Black?

I'm sorry. But I can't be the only one looking at that headline and thinking: "well, you started it, mate."

Shame

Considering that any complaints of hacking etc are never entertained by China I think other nations should ignore complaints from China on hacking problems.

Every day, I see endless logs of Chinese IP addresses attempting to penetrate our networks, many of them are the same ones constantly hitting ports most of the day.

Different now the shoe's on the other foot eh!

Ninks & Chips

"...Surprisingly, Japan is alleged to be the source of most attacks on China..."

Why surprising? Those two have hated each other for centuries.

It would appear the Chinese talent for copying rather than creating has been extended to the 'cyberwarfare victim' arena.

Diddums.

I might have sympathy if it wasn't for the fact that my blog is written in PHP. I wrote it myself, but that hasn't stopped remote systems looking for myAdmin and all sorts of other "notorious back doors". I'm learning quite a bit about Chinese geography looking up the IP addresses to a rough location - three more this morning, Sechuan (sp?) province...