China strikes back

Following recent allegations from the USA, Germany and lately from Australia and New Zealand that government and military networks have been attacked out of China and an earlier warning from the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) in february that an increased activity in hacking attempts out of China has been detected, it is now China who steps forward and claims they “have suffered ‘massive’ losses of state secrets through the Internet”.

According to a Reuters news the Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian said that China’s computer networks were riddled with security holes and that the United States and other hostile powers where exploiting those for “political infiltration”.

While I’m definitely not in any position to judge on who did what to whom, this is starting to look like a contest for the title of ‘Least Secure Government IT Systems’.