January 7, 2008: South Korea is
complaining openly of a Cyber War campaign, coming out of China, that seeks to
gain access to PCs belonging to members of the South Korean armed forces. This
is a targeted attack, using lists of email addresses harvested from military
web sites and other sources. The intention appears to be to discover what
military personnel have on their PCs, and take anything of interest. Japanese
and Taiwanese military personnel have gotten into trouble recently for having
unauthorized data (usually classified) on their PCs (usually in the form of
taking work home). Apparently someone in China noticed this, and decided to
test a new Cyber War tactic on the South Koreans.
