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The details are still a bit shaky, but this news has been making the rounds.<\/p>\n
Apparently the the hack attack in June on the Pentagon<\/a> may have been carried out by the Chinese Military (People’s Liberation Army<\/a>).<\/p>\n One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a \u201cvery high level of confidence…trending towards total certainty\u201d that the PLA was responsible. The defence ministry in Beijing declined to comment on Monday.<\/p>\n Angela Merkel, Germany\u2019s chancellor, raised reports of Chinese infiltration of German government computers with Wen Jiabao, China\u2019s premier, in a visit to Beijing, after which the Chinese foreign ministry said the government opposed and forbade \u201cany criminal acts undermining computer systems, including hacking\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Forbade eh? More likely to be encouraged. Cyber terrorism and cross border attacks for information gathering are not restricted to the realms of movies.<\/p>\n These things do happen, people do follow Sun Tzu and gather as much information as they can about their possible enemies.<\/p>\n The PLA regularly probes US military networks \u2013 and the Pentagon is widely assumed to scan Chinese networks \u2013 but US officials said the penetration in June raised concerns to a new level because of fears that China had shown it could disrupt systems at critical times.<\/p>\n \u201cThe PLA has demonstrated the ability to conduct attacks that disable our system…and the ability in a conflict situation to re-enter and disrupt on a very large scale,\u201d said a former official, who said the PLA had penetrated?the?networks?of US defense companies and think-tanks.<\/p>\n Hackers from numerous locations in China spent several months probing the Pentagon system before overcoming its defenses, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n China has denied this obviously<\/a>…but that leaves a lot to be desired still.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n