Chinese Hackers Attacking Our PC`s; Google leaves China
Feb. 4, 2010
(CNET) Google is finalizing an agreement with the National Security Agency to help the search giant ward off cyberattacks, according to the Washington Post. The NSA is to help analyze a cyberattack on Google that the company said originated in China and defend it from future attacks.
White House Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Wednesday that the attacks on Google were a "wake-up call" and that the U.S. is severely under the threat of greater cyberattacks. Blair detailed a laundry list of adversaries on the cyber-warfare front, including other nations, terrorist networks, and organized crime groups, all of whom have the knowledge and means to attack U.S. networks to disrupt operations and steal sensitive information.
Those comments came after a recent McAfee report, found that critical infrastructure networks around the world were subject to repeated cyber-attacks from foreign governments and other high-level adversaries
Jan. 24, 2010.
Google is officially no longer censoring search results for China, sending all searchers to its uncensored Chinese-language Hong Kong site instead. Just as Google said it would do after it discovered some pretty serious corporate espionage hackery coming from what turned out to be government-related sources in China.
July 1, 2009 * By Michael Horowitz * E Security Planet . com
Because you are on the internet right now
I had just installed a new router on my LAN so I checked the activity log in my new router After only 1 day of operation, my router had blocked five unsolicited inbound connection attempts, from three different IP addresses, and they were all in China!
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Microsoft also injecting invitations to viruses, malware, in Firefox.
If you are using your own windows computer to browse the Internet, take defensive action
Microsoft is putting you at risk, not only with Internet Explorer but now, they are putting their malware into Firefox.
from daniweb.com, Oct 18th, 2009, by Davey Winder
"Microsoft installed without permission a hard-to-remove Firefox extension"
Odd, [sinister], is't it; how Microsoft kicked up a fuss when Google announced the Chrome plugin for Internet Explorer on the [false] grounds that it could make the browser more insecure. Yet, amazingly, Microsoft sees no such problem with installing a plugin into the Firefox browser. What's more it is installed without asking the permission of the user and, he says with more than a hint of irony, it left Firefox vulnerable to a drive-by exploit.
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NSA spying on ALL U.S. Citizens on the Internet
–Mark Klein, April 6, 2006
the Bush administration spying on ALL U.S. citizens without obtaining a FISA warrant
For 22 and 1/2 years I worked as an AT&T technician, first in New York and then in California.
In 2002, when I was working in an AT&T office in San Francisco, the site manager told me to expect a visit from a National Security Agency agent, who was to interview a management-level technician for a special job. The agent came, and by chance I met him and directed him to the appropriate people.
In January 2003, I, along with others, toured the AT&T central office on Folsom Street in San Francisco - actually three floors of an SBC building. There I saw a new room being built adjacent to the 4ESS switch room where the public's phone calls are routed. I learned that the person whom the NSA interviewed for the secret job was the person working to install equipment in this room. The regular technician work force was not allowed in the room.
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contact Obama! 