America screams because of Chinese hackers

Some US security experts have revealed some details about a group of Chinese hackers believed to have launched many attacks on US government agencies to gather intelligence.

These experts believe that this Chinese hacker group has a headquarters in Guangdong and loves to gather information related to US military technology, especially aeronautical, aerospace and software engineering. pilot training. US security officials named this hacker group ' Titan Rain '.

On November 24, Alan Paller, director of the SANS Internet and Security Research Institute, officially said: 'These attackers broke into US Air Command and Command computers. Strategic missiles to steal a special flight training system for military pilots'. Paller estimates that this Titan Rain hacker group has about 20 people

Chinese hacker group Titan Rain was officially mentioned by security experts in the United States last summer when the Washington Post published an article warning about the phenomenon of websites originating from China. used to attack the US Department of Defense and various US government agencies. Shortly thereafter, Time also published an article written by American security expert Shawn Carpenter about the intrusion activities of Tiran Rain group.

Paller detailed about a break into the US government computers that may have brought some results because the group Titan Rain made from the night of November 1, 2004 to dawn on November 2 2004.

- At 2223 on November 1, 2004, hackers of Titan Rain exploited some security flaws to break into the computer system of the US Army Information Technology Center in Fort Huachuca city, Arizona state.

- At 1:19 am on November 2, 2004, Titan Rain team discovered a similar security error to break into the computer system of the US Department of Defense Information Bureau.

- At 3:25 am, the group turned to attack the US Naval Ocean Monitoring Center in San Diego, California.

- At 4:46 am, the group moved to attack the computer system of the US Air Force Strategic Command in Huntsville, Alabama.

Roger Cummings, director of the UK National Information System Security Center, also announced that British military and state agencies are also "cared" by hackers of some Far East countries. with many sophisticated attacks. With a more 'diplomatic' attitude than his colleagues in the US, Roger Cummings did not specifically identify the hackers of any country participating in these attacks.

HOANG KIM ANH