FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack

Amy Bennett writes “This past weekend we discussed an increasing level of attacks online, targeting Tibetan-based NGOs. Now the BBC is reporting that the Save Darfur Coalition has called in the FBI on what appears to be a similar matter. Allyn Brooks-LaSure, a spokesman with the group, doesn’t know who is behind the attacks, but he said the IP addresses of the computers that had hacked his organization were from China. Save Darfur has been trying to get China, one of Sudan’s largest trading partners, to pressure Sudan’s government into stopping the mass killings in Darfur’s ongoing civil war. ‘Someone in Beijing is trying to send us a message,’ Brooks-LaSure said. Probably the same message they’re sending by continuing to shut down video sites covering the Tibetan unrest.”

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Original post by Zonk

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Amy Bennett writes “This past weekend we discussed an increasing level of attacks online, targeting Tibetan-based NGOs. Now the BBC is reporting that the Save Darfur Coalition has called in the FBI on what appears to be a similar matter. Allyn Brooks-LaSure, a spokesman with the group, doesn’t know who is behind the attacks, but he said the IP addresses of the computers that had hacked his organization were from China. Save Darfur has been trying to get China, one of Sudan’s largest trading partners, to pressure Sudan’s government into stopping the mass killings in Darfur’s ongoing civil war. ‘Someone in Beijing is trying to send us a message,’ Brooks-LaSure said. Probably the same message they’re sending by continuing to shut down video sites covering the Tibetan unrest.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Original post by Zonk

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am and is filed under Tech News 03/2008. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.