Chinese TV programme shows apparent cyber-attack on US website

Source: The Guardian

China's state broadcaster has screened footage that apparently shows army-labelled software for attacking US-based websites, security experts have said.

Beijing has consistently denied being behind cyber-attacks, insisting it plays no part in hacking and is itself a victim.

The analysts warned that the six-second clip could be a mock-up by the broadcaster, CCTV, and that, if genuine, it was probably around 10 years old. The footage emerged as the Pentagon's annual report to Congress on the Chinese military said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had closed some key technological gaps and was on track for modernisation, including thorough investment in cyber capabilities, by 2020.

The Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, denounced the document as a scaremongering "cock and bull story".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/25/china-cyber-attack-tv-hacking

Having lived there off and on since 06, I've learned that CCTV is a mouthpiece for Beijing. But some good democracy stories have slipped through--from what I saw on Liaoning TV channel in Shenyang. But remember, they priate all their software from us. Anything worthwhile that we come up with, they will try to get their hands on it through Hong Kong, or Taiwan.