Nov 03 2008
China’s use of cyber warfare
I haven’t actually had a chance to read the whole article (long) but did a quick scan and it looks worthwhile. Opens with background on the PLA’s current capabilities and then gets into the cyber warfare section.
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A nice but long read, some interesting data there. Here’s another one for you, at least this excert from the MS Security Intelligence Report.
“Breaking these figures down geographically shows a pattern, with the People’s Republic
of China being home to more than twice as many infected computers as the next most
infected locale, as shown in in Figure 35.
In China, gaming is often done in Internet cafés or on
other public terminals, which are used by large numbers
of people and present a greater opportunity for infection
than a private computer. For example, if just one person
inserts a USB drive infected with Win32/Taterf into an
unprotected public terminal, the computer is compromised
and can steal passwords from anyone else who uses
the computer until the infection is removed. It is therefore
particularly important for operators of public Internet
terminals to install antivirus software and keep it up to
date. Other best practices would be to prevent customers
in those Internet cafés and other public places from
installing software on computers at all or to use virtualized
disk images to return all computers to a known clean state
at the end of each session or business day. (Virtualized
images should of course be kept up to date with the latest
security updates and antivirus definitions as part of ongoing
maintenance.)”
You can find the full report here, in PDF but a 150 pages of info.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/2/9/b29bee13-ceca-48f0-b4ad-53cf85f325e8/Microsoft_Security_Intelligence_Report_v5.pdf
CBRP1R8,
Thanks, I’ll download the article ASAP.