China admits to having cyber warfare units

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China admits to having cyber warfare units | Zee News
Last Updated: Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 14:08

Beijing: China has finally admitted that it has cyber warfare units and plenty of hackers attached with them.


According to gizmodo.com, the Chinese government has previously denied having made any organized cyber warfare efforts, despite investigations pinning blame for hacking attacks on the US on the People`s Liberation Army.

China broke from its tradition of denying everything related to digital spying and network attack capabilities and explicitly revealed that it has specialized units devoted to using computers as weapons, reports gizmodo.in.

This explicit reveal could change the often-tense dynamic between Beijing and Washington, since it makes China`s usual tactic of denying everything way less effective.

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First there is no official admit about that, just a chinese book 《The Science of Military Strategy》 discuss about it.
Second, nowadays, if some country has no unit like that, that is a indeed serious news~

 

[Hindustani78]

Updated: March 20, 2015 17:32 IST
Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking - The Hindu

China's Defence Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military's involvement.

"The relevant criticism that China's military participated in Internet hacking is to play the same old tune, and is totally baseless," the ministry said in a fax to Reuters in response to a question about the story.

According to the Financial Times, hackers apparently have had access to Register.com's network for about a year, but the attack did not disrupt or result in theft of client data.

It is not clear what the Chinese military would be looking for or what it would gain from Register.com's data.

The ministry repeated the government's standard line that China is one of the world's biggest victims of hacking.

"The Chinese government has all along resolutely opposed and dealt with in accordance with the law Internet hacking and other relevant criminal activities, and the Chinese military has never been involved in or participated in any activities to steal commercial secrets online," it added.