'Iranian' hackers paralyse Chinese search engine Baidu

[demoleft]

Source: the guardian

Hackers calling themselves the "Iranian Cyber Army" paralysed China's biggest search engine this morning, sparking a bizarre online battle as Chinese hackers apparently retaliated by targeting Iranian sites.

Last month the group attacked Twitter, which has been used by Iranian opposition supporters. But Beijing and Tehran are allies and it was not immediately obvious why hackers targeted Baidu, which commands over 60% of the search market in China.

Some Chinese internet users speculated that it might be in retaliation against Chinese Twitter users who have used a #CN4Iran hashtag to express their support for reformists. Although Twitter is blocked in China, it is used by several thousand people there through proxies or virtual private networks (VPN).
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Although the message left on Twitter by the Iranian Cyber Army suggested it was sympathetic to the government, experts told Reuters last month that it was unlikely Tehran was involved.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/12/iranian-hackers-chinese-search-engine

[bemildred]

1. Hmmmm, now who would want to stir up trouble between Iran and China? nt

[anonymous171]

2. AMERIKKKA IS AT IT AGAIN

[bemildred]

3. Well, that might work, but I can certainly think of a few others. nt

[AlphaCentauri]

9. Google?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4222313

:evilgrin:

[bemildred]

10. An interesting thought.

They would probably have the necessary horsepower ready to hand.

[Pavulon]

4. The root of all evil, the worst of the worst, the pisser of your cornflakes..

always there to take blame. Its a search engine hack, not a compromise of the electrical, dod, or hospital systems. Those are generally carried out by little twat script kiddies too.

It is amazing how hard it is to get people just to use a non default password.

[parts]

5. kids, that's all. nt

"Amerikkka"?

[Canuckistanian]

6. Hmmmm

:popcorn:

[katkat]

7. I am deeply distressed by this.

:rofl:

[8 track mind]

8. turn about is fair play!! n/t

[sudopod]

11. Success!

[leveymg]

12. Gee, and nobody can figure out who might want to blow up one of Iran's top nuclear experts too.

Qui Bono?

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Most of our systems, from town services to military defense/offense systems are computer controlled

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These guys are practicing - checking out weaknesses.

Whaddya think China's shooting down a satellite was about?

I mentioned in an earlier thread about a book(fiction) I had read where the USA's war-machine was rendered impotent by disrupting communications from land to satellites

Think about it - missiles target by satellites, drones, regular command communications gone -

a whole lot of toys,

no communication

IT IS POSSIBLE!

No country in the World will ever be able to amass the killing power of the USA's war machine

but they may be able to disable it

sumthing to ponder

:freak: