[Newsbot]

Title: Chinese hackers try to access Canadian gov't data
Category: Tech
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-02-16 19:14:46
Canadian

[Arctic_Menace]

We should start spying on them.

[herbie]

PAy for it like everyone else scumbags!

[Proculation]

Fiewwww... I didn't send my taxes yet.

[andyt]

Couldn't be the Chinese, they're our good trading partners. They'd never do anything to hurt us, and anybody that says different is a racist. Plus they send us many immigrants every year to help with our economy, and all of them have renounced all loyalty to their homeland, only want to become good Canadians.

[Proculation]

andyt.... we talked about that. It was supposed to be a february 17th without sarcasm ...

[Curtman]

CTV CTV:

Chinese government hackers have unsuccessfully attempted to break into the Canadian finance department's computers to obtain secret economic data

Foreign hackers attack Canadian government

$1:

An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government, apparently from China, has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information and forced at least two key departments off the internet, CBC News has learned.
...
Sources have confirmed, however, that the attackers successfully penetrated the computer systems at the federal government's two main economic nerve centres, the Finance Department and Treasury Board.

[Benn]

Curtman Curtman:

CTV CTV:

Chinese government hackers have unsuccessfully attempted to break into the Canadian finance department's computers to obtain secret economic data

Foreign hackers attack Canadian government

$1:

An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government, apparently from China, has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information and forced at least two key departments off the internet, CBC News has learned.
...
Sources have confirmed, however, that the attackers successfully penetrated the computer systems at the federal government's two main economic nerve centres, the Finance Department and Treasury Board.

Too funny!!!!!!

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

Couldn't be the Chinese, they're our good trading partners. They'd never do anything to hurt us, and anybody that says different is a racist. Plus they send us many immigrants every year to help with our economy, and all of them have renounced all loyalty to their homeland, only want to become good Canadians.

Sandorski hijack your account, eh?

[DrCaleb]

My first question to these breaches is always 'why is this stuff on the Internet?'. Why is it not on a separate network specifically to make it that much tougher to be breached? I blame Julian Assange for the leak.

My second question usually is 'why did you store this information'? Like, why does the grocery store save my debit card # and password? Of what further use is it to them, vs how devestating it could be to me when they find out they didn't secure it properly.

Honestly, good computer security isn't that tough, if you think through; write down; and follow procedures!

[bootlegga]

andyt andyt:

Couldn't be the Chinese, they're our good trading partners. They'd never do anything to hurt us, and anybody that says different is a racist.

I bet you're also surprised that the US has spied on us too - after all they're our good trading partners too. I'm not defending the Chinese, but noting that lots of foreign governments have spied on Canada before. It's hardly anything new.

If our government was smart we'd develop a foreign spy service like most other countries. And unlike the Chinese (and other homogeneous nations), our heterogenous population provides large numbers of potential candidates to spy on our competitors, be they China, Japan, Brazil, Russia or almost anyone else.

andyt andyt:

Plus they send us many immigrants every year to help with our economy, and all of them have renounced all loyalty to their homeland, only want to become good Canadians.

I know almost two dozen Chinese immigrants who have in fact done just that.

And I'd be willing to be that 90% of recent Chinese immigrant's children will assimilate here quite well - just like the thousands who came here in the past have.

[andyt]

$1:

Foreign students and scientists, business delegations and Chinese immigrants are among those used as informants, says the spy agency.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=ca90416e-fe77-4b8d-ae59-a4e9f55b6441&k=26688

[bootlegga]

andyt andyt:

$1:

Foreign students and scientists, business delegations and Chinese immigrants are among those used as informants, says the spy agency.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=ca90416e-fe77-4b8d-ae59-a4e9f55b6441&k=26688

We've got lots of 2nd/3rd gen Chinese Canadians who can speak fluently and are versed in their culture, so sending them the other way to spy on China should be relatively easy.

Unfortunately, CSIS spent the first half of its organziational life trying to deal with the Soviets and now the Muslims are their focus, so we've little resources left to deal with other potential threats to our security. Even if CSIS had the resources to deal with China, it lacks the mandate to operate outside of Canada - hence the need for a new foreign intelligence service.

And if some reports on the Mossad (Victor Ostrovoksy stated that Mossad only had 40-50 agents worldwide) are accurate, our foreign spy service wouldn't need to be huge and expensive like the CIA to be effective.

[Curtman]

Canada says budget data safe from hackers

$1:

Hackers who broke into the computer system at Canada's finance ministry did not obtain any confidential information on the upcoming federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

Flaherty said he was not taking any additional security measures in the wake of the incident.

Phew! At least they didn't get the budget data!

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Curtman Curtman:

Canada says budget data safe from hackers

$1:

Hackers who broke into the computer system at Canada's finance ministry did not obtain any confidential information on the upcoming federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

Flaherty said he was not taking any additional security measures in the wake of the incident.

Phew! At least they didn't get the budget data!

But I bet they know what the G20 delegates had for supper now though