CEJ #1
Perlroth, Nicole
New York Times
Jan 30, 2013
The
New York Times was hacked! But how? Who? Why?The Ny Times was hacked by
China, after publishing an article, oct 25, about Wen Jiabao, Chinese
prime minister, and his relatives billions of dollars made from certain
business deals. The New York times was attacked for around 4 months, and
had 53 employee’s passwords compromised. Seems like a lot? It is, the
Chinese had based the attack on the network, rendering anyone who used
that network, hacked. But the Chinese were smart, and had attempted to
cloak their attacks, by hacking into the Universities around the Ny
Times, and sending the malicious software from there. The software was a
specific strain, that was recognized from many other attacks that had
originated from China. Since the “investigators” hired by the Ny Times
had not found any hard proof, they advise that it would be not smart to
try and confront them about.
I
understand why the Chinese would do this, if they actually did do it.
You're trying to protect your corrupt relatives from being caught, so of
course they would take it to extreme levels. But this is a matter of
national security, even if it was only a newspaper article that was
attacked, if it was up to me, i would probably take action. But since
there was no hard proof, it would be stupid to go up against a country
as powerful as China. I don't know how I would handle this, but all I
know is that I do take it as an offensive gesture.
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