Morgan Stanley Leak Shows Attack By China-Based Hackers Who Took On Google

Bloomberg:

Morgan Stanley experienced a "very sensitive" break-in to its network by the same China-based hackers who attacked Google Inc.'s computers more than a year ago, according to e-mails stolen from a cyber-security company working for the bank.

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[stargazer13]

02:51 PM on 03/01/2011

and did ya see the large firer work off our western coast !

pretty close if ya ask me !

[Hussein Abdulrasul]

02:22 PM on 03/01/2011

I thought America's computer engineers were smarter than those of China... Oh well, there's always a 2nd spot. In other news:

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[netzwerg]

12:12 PM on 03/01/2011

Everybody is hacking everybody.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5126584/China-and-Russia-hack-into-US-power-grid.html

[billhodges]

12:08 PM on 03/01/2011

“There is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered, capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008,” the report says, explaining that those domestic economic factors would have caused a “normal downturn” but not the “near collapse” of the global economic system that took place.
Suspects include financial enemies in Middle Eastern states, Islamic terrorists, hostile members of the Chinese military, or government and organized crime groups in Russia, Venezuela or Iran. Chinese military officials publicly have suggested using economic warfare against the U.S.

“The new battle space is the economy,” Freeman told the Times. “We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems each year. But a relatively small amount of money focused against our financial markets through leveraged derivatives or cyber efforts can result in trillions of dollars in losses. And, the perpetrators can remain undiscovered.
“This is the equivalent of box cutters on an airplane.”

[Andy49]

11:51 AM on 03/01/2011

Why can't we say the Chinese government because the great firewall works both ways and they are completely aware of what is going on and support it. This is very high tech spying.