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                    Chinese Media Slam Cyber Hacking Report

   by VOA News

   China's state-controlled media are questioning the credibility of a
   report by a U.S. Internet security group that accuses the Chinese
   military of carrying out a sophisticated campaign of global cyber
   attacks.
   The private security contractor Mandiant's report on Tuesday took
   unusually direct aim at the Chinese government. It says it can trace
   years of attacks on U.S. corporations to a specific division of the
   People's Liberation Army, Unit 61398.
   To help support its claims, Mandiant says it traced the IP addresses,
   or computer identification codes, of many of the hackers all the way to
   a specific neighborhood in Shanghai where Unit 61398 is located.
   China's quick and furious rejection of the potentially embarrassing
   report has mainly focused on what it says is the unreliability of using
   IP addresses to discover the exact location of the hackers.
   On Thursday, an editorial in the official Xinhua news agency described
   the report as "amateurish" and "full of loopholes." It argued it is
   "highly unlikely" to determine the origin of specific attacks, since
   hackers often re-route them through foreign computers.
   The White House would not directly comment on the report, but said it
   regularly raises the issue of cyber attacks with Chinese leaders. On
   Wednesday, it introduced new measures aimed at countering the threat
   posed by global hackers and cyber spies.
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