Russia and China are known to use cyber hackers who, for a fee, will target a government of choice How Safe Are Britain's Cyber Borders? -- The Telegraph
Chinese hackers are launching thousands of attacks on Britain every day. Is time running out to defend ourselves?
Deep beneath the palatial headquarters of the Ministry of State Security in central Beijing, a plot is being hatched – and the target is Britain.
Ranked in front of banks of computer screens in the large, fluorescent-lit offices of the Tenth Bureau, the highly secret department responsible for science and technology, thousands of cyber spies are at work. The hackers, mainly graduates in their twenties, work in eight-hour shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as part of an unrelenting Blitzkrieg against Britain and other Western countries.
This is warfare without boundaries, and its tactics will dictate the way in which future conflicts are fought.
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My Comment: The key paragraph in this report is the following ....
“The Chinese are after every secret the UK possesses,” one senior security official told The Sunday Telegraph. “The main challenge for the Chinese at the moment is not how to steal the secrets but what to do with all the information they now possess. The Chinese have stolen so much information that it is taking them a long time to sift through it to find what is really useful to them.
It seems that we have already lost this war.