Former NSA Director: China Has hacked Every Major Company In USA

The Chinese government has in the hunt for valuable data hacked computers of any large American company, as the former director of the NSA did this week during a lecture know at the University of Missouri. "The Chinese are the most aggressive. About 80% of all economic espionage conducted by the Chinese," as told Mike McConnell.

"The Chinese have invaded every large company of any significance in the United States and have stolen information," said the former Director of the NSA. In particular, information for windmills, cars, airplanes, spaceships, plant design and software of Chinese attackers interest would have. McConnell even claimed that the Chinese government, in the last year of the reign of George W. Bush, had more than 100,000 hackers who only engaged in computer hacking.

"They steal terabits of data," McConnell continued. He would regularly have been involved in investigating burglaries at US companies and government agencies. "It has never happened that we encountered no Chinese malware." If the theft of trade secrets is not stopped it will have strategic implications for the US, warned McConnell.

Chinese Government Blocks VPN Services

The Chinese government has all kinds of VPN services blocked in the country, giving consumers no websites like Facebook and Google can visit more and particularly small foreign companies in China can not connect to their servers and enterprise networks can make abroad.

Via a Virtual Private Network (VPN), it is possible to make a computer is part of a network that is located at a different location. The traffic then runs through a specially constructed tunnel. China VPNs are used inter alia to circumvent government censorship. Using a VPN service make Chinese Internet connect on servers in Europe, from where they can then visit various Web sites that are not accessible in China. Because the traffic through the secure VPN tunnel running the Chinese authorities can not view the contents.

VPN provider Golden Frog announced that users of the VyprVPN service problems have to approach certain VPN servers abroad. The problem is as Golden Frog also with other VPN providers. "From a technical standpoint, it is not caused by server problems, but it's a network problem in China." For the time being of the company in the Netherlands and Hong Kong VPN servers would still be accessible for Chinese users.

According to Richard Robinson, a foreign entrepreneur in China, it is especially small and medium-sized foreign companies that makes the VPN blockade. Many larger companies have in fact direct connections to servers outside the country, so let him across the Associated Press know. In recent weeks, the Chinese government also decided to block all access to Gmail.Similarly, a measure which affects small businesses according to Robinson, as they often use the mail service from Google.