China Spying Attempts

[Ceyfer √]

China's is really jealous! it seems that the last standing communist regime is really afraid of information dissemination - controlled everything? And suddenly I forgot NSA.

Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its GMAIL messaging service about wide spread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist.



Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail, encountering a red banner reading "Your account was recently accessed from China," and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the account. Users were then encouraged to change their password immediately. Based on Twitter posts, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the accounts that were accessed, though one target is a prominent privacy rights activist in the UK who has spoken out against the Chinese government's censorship of its citizens.

A Google spokesman declined to comment on the latest warnings specifically. The company has been issuing similar warnings since March when it introduced features to identify suspicious account activity

Threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-warning-gmail-users-china-spying-attempts-092310

[Ande]

Duh. An informed populace is an uncontrolled populace.
The last thing China wants is for it's people to have full, unrestricted access to the web.

[luffy]

The last thing China wants is for it's people to have full, unrestricted access to the web.

Chinese Government Asks Internet Service Providers to Stop Pornographic Content
Chinese government wants to keep it themselves?

[Neo]

Chinese Government Asks Internet Service Providers to Stop Pornographic Content
Chinese government wants to keep it themselves?

lol

china has great firewall yet its the country engaged in hacking other country and sites secret stuff

[noaccount]

Strong passwords must be working

[safeguy]

I'm lucky then...

The last thing I want is my govt. to spy on my email or anything that's personal without prior permission/consent from me. You can block me from "this website", "that website", etc all in the name of 'the better good' (and if I want to, I'll find a way to bypass those at my risk...catch me if you can) but you've got no right to check my email. Period. Breach of privacy is not justified whatever the reason may be...unless I'm a criminal (and that you have to have valid evidences for it) that poses risk to the 'peace and safety' of the entire country.

[JayCub]

yesterday a friend of mine mentioned that some hard drives made in China came with spyware preinstalled, whether that is true or not i don't know or whether or not it's paranoia setting in, thumbs up from me for safeguys reply, The Irish government is well known for their dodgy dealings week in week out, and thank you Ceyfer for posting the information..

[leofelix]

It seems that The web and the internet are becoming similar to a battle field instead a way to communicate and share informations.

It is likely that the co-founders of ARPA.NET were already aware of such consequences

[Alboguy]

Heheh looks like the notorious Google - China feud is still going on...

[INDRANIL]

They are out of their mind .