On 27 August 2007, when I tried to log into my blog in the early hours of the morning, I received a message something like that:
"Emergency Maintenance in progress. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again later."
I thought something must have gone wrong with the server of Blogger. I just left it at that and went to sleep. A few hours later, again I visited my own blog (The Garuda) and discovered that one of my pictures has disappeared. That was the picture of the late Mr Howe Yoon Chong which I had posted on the top right hand corner of my earlier article, titled:
"A Reluctant Politician or A Pseudo Politician?".
On the same day, Mr Alex Echkelberry, a security researcher from Sunbelt Software, found out some fake entries in the Google's Blogger website. These entries contain weblinkds that lead to booby-trapped downloads. These downloads infect computers using the Windows plateform and enable hackers to take over control of these computers. These computers can then be used for attacks upon other computers or remain as silent 'sleepers' until activated by the hijackers. This is believed to be the work of a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of computers across the whole world. The fake entries could have exploited a Blogger feature that lets users to email entries to their own blogs or the blogs themselves could also be fakes set up as hosts for spamming. Some said that the fake posts could also have been spread by users whose computers have been infected by a virus, but I don't think so. There has to be a special software that can penetrate into the networking setup.
On 17 May 2007 Estonia accused Russia of launching a Cyber War to disable the websites of her government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks and commercial companies. And NATO had dispatched some of its top cyber-terrorism experts to Tallinn to investigate and to help the Estonians beef up their electronic defences. Alarm over the unprecedented scale of cyber-warfare was raised at the summit between European and Russian leaders outside Samara on the Volga, yet NATO was careful not to accuse the Russians directly.
Just three days ago, the US accused China's military of hacking into the Pentagon's computers. A day later the UK joined in the accusation that China had hacked into the UK Government's computer systems. What I think is that China must be very stupid to have used her military computers within China to do such a lousy job that can be discovered so easily, while professional hackers who hacked into millions of computers have yet to be identified. And if the US's and UK's accusations are true, then I think China must be very advanced in her cyber-warfare. Then I would salute China for her Big Leap Forward in Electronic Technology.
The Garuda - 6th September 2007. "Emergency Maintenance in progress. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again later."
I thought something must have gone wrong with the server of Blogger. I just left it at that and went to sleep. A few hours later, again I visited my own blog (The Garuda) and discovered that one of my pictures has disappeared. That was the picture of the late Mr Howe Yoon Chong which I had posted on the top right hand corner of my earlier article, titled:
"A Reluctant Politician or A Pseudo Politician?".
On the same day, Mr Alex Echkelberry, a security researcher from Sunbelt Software, found out some fake entries in the Google's Blogger website. These entries contain weblinkds that lead to booby-trapped downloads. These downloads infect computers using the Windows plateform and enable hackers to take over control of these computers. These computers can then be used for attacks upon other computers or remain as silent 'sleepers' until activated by the hijackers. This is believed to be the work of a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of computers across the whole world. The fake entries could have exploited a Blogger feature that lets users to email entries to their own blogs or the blogs themselves could also be fakes set up as hosts for spamming. Some said that the fake posts could also have been spread by users whose computers have been infected by a virus, but I don't think so. There has to be a special software that can penetrate into the networking setup.
On 17 May 2007 Estonia accused Russia of launching a Cyber War to disable the websites of her government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks and commercial companies. And NATO had dispatched some of its top cyber-terrorism experts to Tallinn to investigate and to help the Estonians beef up their electronic defences. Alarm over the unprecedented scale of cyber-warfare was raised at the summit between European and Russian leaders outside Samara on the Volga, yet NATO was careful not to accuse the Russians directly.
Just three days ago, the US accused China's military of hacking into the Pentagon's computers. A day later the UK joined in the accusation that China had hacked into the UK Government's computer systems. What I think is that China must be very stupid to have used her military computers within China to do such a lousy job that can be discovered so easily, while professional hackers who hacked into millions of computers have yet to be identified. And if the US's and UK's accusations are true, then I think China must be very advanced in her cyber-warfare. Then I would salute China for her Big Leap Forward in Electronic Technology.
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