Canada Says China Hacked Science Agency Computers

[Srgnt_Ballistic]

Image via: http://map.ipviking.com/

 

It should be no surprise to anyone that a massive number of network scans and penetration attempts originate from China. While taking a Network and Security course at Virginia Tech, our professor visualized all the attacks to our campus network overlaid onto Google Earth. A vast majority of the attacks came from roughly 3 places in China. The map lines originating from China were about 100 times thicker than from anywhere else, indicating the volume being 100 times higher from that IP/IP-block.

 

Recently, Canadian officials claim that hackers working at the behest of the Chinese government gained access to Canada's NRC network -- not a surprising piece of news, considering the amount of cyber threats originating from China. The NRC, or National Research Council, is Canada's chief research and technology organization. While there is no evidence that points to any other networks of the Canadian government's infrastructure being infiltrated, the NRC network has now been isolated from the greater government system as a precaution. Tangential and peripheral (which often means less secured) networks are frequently used as an attack vector, allowing hackers to gain access to the larger juicier target they want to access.

 

Image via www.asianews.it

 

“Recently, the Government of Canada, through the work of the Communications Security Establishment, detected and confirmed a cyber intrusion on the IT infrastructure of the National Research Council of Canada by a highly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actor.”

-- Corinne Charette, Canada’s Chief Information Officer

 

The implications of this being a state sponsored attack as opposed to a hacker group or private corporation make this news story noteworthy. The Chinese government and industrial complex are known for having loose to blatantly nonexistent considerations for copyrights and patents. Clones of commercial products (from consumer electronics to knock-off Bentleys) and even military hardware-like drones are run-of-the-mill in China. So it makes sense that China would want to gain access to a nationally-backed research organization.

 

 

Hopefully they didn't gain access to Canada's super-secret bagged milk super-soldier project!

 

Source: https://community.we...57?sf29171718=1

[ThyFeared]

Are they playing warcraft 3?

[Levent]

Are they playing warcraft 3?

it could be starcraft too

[ThyFeared]

it could be starcraft too

Really looks like WarCraft

[Fred Castellum]

it could be starcraft too

Thats definitely warcraft 3. He looks like he's playing as the nightelfs. 

[Victorious Secret]

 

Chek urself b4 u rekt urself, China. 

 

Don't piss off the Canadians. 

 

We'll call in the Commonwealth nations and wreck you so hard, so fast, you'll be fending off boxing Kangaroos before you know what happened.

[squirrl]

Haha, bagged milk references

[worldwin]

Them communists best be ready or we're come for em.

[Srgnt_Ballistic]

Yeah it's pretty weird how China is willing to pour resources into any and everything that will strengthen their economy and interests. Video games, hacking.

[Beskamir]

Haha, bagged milk references

I don't get it. Guess I wasn't following Linus for long enough anyways if you could explain or link me to it's origin that would be great

[squirrl]

I don't get it. Guess I wasn't following Linus for long enough anyways if you could explain or link me to it's origin that would be great

It's a bit of a shot at canadians in general as they have a lot of bagged milk! being canadian yourself, surely you should know ;)

 

It was something a bit more personal in my case,  I did a podcast with some people, one of them being a canadian and bagged milk became a big part of the convo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrmeKJZhRM

[shiftberry]

they were playing games actually, chinacraft: kill to conquer

[Srgnt_Ballistic]

I loves teh Canadians! I'm just celebrating our differences!

[Trik'Stari]

Honestly, I'm starting to believe that China is behind most of the worlds current conflicts. Playing all sides against each other and waiting until we're all dead to take over.

[flibberdipper]

EW, FUCKING VGA. GROSS.

[Beskamir]

It's a bit of a shot at canadians in general as they have a lot of bagged milk! being canadian yourself, surely you should know ;)

 

It was something a bit more personal in my case,  I did a podcast with some people, one of them being a canadian and bagged milk became a big part of the convo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrmeKJZhRM

Nice podcast. It's not as interesting as The Tek, WASD, Wanshow, etc but it's not bad. Has a decent amount of humor and covers a fair amount of topics but it sort of seems like its too long. Most people on youtube don't have a long attention span It's kind of the reason why I don't watch the PCPerpodcast every week. It's too long and not as humorous as the Wanshow.

 

Anyways after a google search it makes sense why I haven't heard about bagged milk.

From wikipedia:

 

They are sold in central and eastern Canada, but not widely in western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia) and Newfoundland and Labrador.^[1]

[squirrl]

Nice podcast. It's not as interesting as The Tek, WASD, Wanshow, etc but it's not bad. Has a decent amount of humor and covers a fair amount of topics but it sort of seems like its too long. Most people on youtube don't have a long attention span It's kind of the reason why I don't watch the PCPerpodcast every week. It's too long and not as humorous as the Wanshow.

 

Anyways after a google search it makes sense why I haven't heard about bagged milk.

From wikipedia:

 

Yeah, we just talked about random crap with little experience and it didn't go very far