US is biggest hacker, Chinese military expert says
Snowden’s latest revelations and government statistics show America is the real world police, Zhang Junshe claims
Angela Meng 13 October 2014
A commentary in the People’s Daily overseas edition today hit back at the United States and claimed that China is the biggest victim of hacking.
Zhang Junshe, a military expert, said revelations by former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden and statistics from the China Academy of Cyber Space have enabled the “international community” to see the “real face” of the “world police”, the United States.
“Snowden’s latest revelations once again confirmed that the US is the world’s biggest cyberespionage attacker,” Zhang wrote. “China is a firm cyber-security defender, the Chinese government and army have never engaged in or supported any network attacks and espionage activities.”
China’s State Internet Information office published the country’s data on US cyberattacks in May. The data claimed that from March 19 to May 18 of this year, 2,077 Trojan horse networks or botnet services in the US directly controlled 1.18 million host computers in China.
According to the report, the US has been spying on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extensively for years. It said that US planted optical fibre bugs between the walls of the offices of the Chinese embassy in Australia when it was built in 1990.
The commentary also mentions that data from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Centre of China in May found 135 host computers in the US targeted 1,754 Chinese websites in 57,000 attacks.
Tensions between China and the US on cybersecurity issues have intensified this year. In May, the US Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese military for stealing trade secrets and cyberespionage, marking the first time the US government has publicly accused foreign employees of hacking into American firms.
China responded by summoning the American ambassador in Beijing to condemn the accusations, increased security checks for computer hardware and services operating in China and banned Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system.
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US is biggest hacker, Chinese military expert says
Snowden’s latest revelations and government statistics show America is the real world police, Zhang Junshe claims
Angela Meng
13 October 2014
A commentary in the People’s Daily overseas edition today hit back at the United States and claimed that China is the biggest victim of hacking.
Zhang Junshe, a military expert, said revelations by former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden and statistics from the China Academy of Cyber Space have enabled the “international community” to see the “real face” of the “world police”, the United States.
“Snowden’s latest revelations once again confirmed that the US is the world’s biggest cyberespionage attacker,” Zhang wrote. “China is a firm cyber-security defender, the Chinese government and army have never engaged in or supported any network attacks and espionage activities.”
China’s State Internet Information office published the country’s data on US cyberattacks in May. The data claimed that from March 19 to May 18 of this year, 2,077 Trojan horse networks or botnet services in the US directly controlled 1.18 million host computers in China.
According to the report, the US has been spying on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extensively for years. It said that US planted optical fibre bugs between the walls of the offices of the Chinese embassy in Australia when it was built in 1990.
The commentary also mentions that data from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Centre of China in May found 135 host computers in the US targeted 1,754 Chinese websites in 57,000 attacks.
Tensions between China and the US on cybersecurity issues have intensified this year. In May, the US Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese military for stealing trade secrets and cyberespionage, marking the first time the US government has publicly accused foreign employees of hacking into American firms.
China responded by summoning the American ambassador in Beijing to condemn the accusations, increased security checks for computer hardware and services operating in China and banned Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system.
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