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This is a severe attack against the Chinese Internet. ... if cities like Beijing and Shanghai seeing chaos in their power grid for three consecutive ...
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Alarm bells should ring for Internet security
Global Times | 2014-1-23 0:48:02 By Global Times
Around 3:10 pm Tuesday, China's top-level domain name root servers
malfunctioned, leading to a widespread domain name outage. Many websites
were redirected to 65.49.2.178, an IP address that is believed by
analysts to belong to a US-based website run by Dynamic Internet
Technology, which has denied any responsibility for the incident.
This is a severe attack against the Chinese Internet. It is necessary to make clear what is behind it and what specific consequences have been caused.
We strongly require Washington, which maintains absolute control of the Internet to launch an investigation and publish the findings. If the US fails to deal with the incident properly, Chinese trust toward the US over the Internet will be damaged. The incident may even become a prominent example for those seeking to conduct Web hacking against the US.
Of the 13 root servers that manage global Internet traffic, 10 are located in the US. The US is even more hegemonic in the virtual world than in the real world. Top-level domain names for both Iraq and Libya were blocked by Washington in wartime, leading to the two countries' "evaporation" from the global Internet.
Theoretically, such a threat could be imposed on China anytime the US wants. Washington is capable of striking China physically through its virtual power. For instance, today we can hardly isolate our electrical power grid from the global Internet. It is beyond thinking about if cities like Beijing and Shanghai seeing chaos in their power grid for three consecutive days.
China lags behind the US in terms of social understanding about virtual space.
Compared with other countries, it is more urgent for China to consolidate its Internet security. As a rising power, China is seen as a competitor by the US. But meanwhile, China's IT structure is still very weak, and China cannot simply isolate itself for the sake of security. It can rely upon no one else but itself to find out the way to build proper "Internet defenses" for such a complicated developing country.
China has to accelerate development and innovation of key Internet technology, which is the prerequisite to ensure security.
Systematic collaboration is also needed, including top-level strategic design, cooperation between government agencies and between government and enterprises, as well as fostering social awareness of Internet security.
Washington has refused to transfer Internet control to the UN despite worldwide appeals. The US own national interest dominates virtual society, which is the biggest tacit rule of the global Internet.
China should be alarmed by the serious DNS outage, and take action to avoid as many traps on the Internet as possible. We cannot remove all those traps, but we can become increasingly sophisticated in dealing with them.
This is a severe attack against the Chinese Internet. It is necessary to make clear what is behind it and what specific consequences have been caused.
We strongly require Washington, which maintains absolute control of the Internet to launch an investigation and publish the findings. If the US fails to deal with the incident properly, Chinese trust toward the US over the Internet will be damaged. The incident may even become a prominent example for those seeking to conduct Web hacking against the US.
Of the 13 root servers that manage global Internet traffic, 10 are located in the US. The US is even more hegemonic in the virtual world than in the real world. Top-level domain names for both Iraq and Libya were blocked by Washington in wartime, leading to the two countries' "evaporation" from the global Internet.
Theoretically, such a threat could be imposed on China anytime the US wants. Washington is capable of striking China physically through its virtual power. For instance, today we can hardly isolate our electrical power grid from the global Internet. It is beyond thinking about if cities like Beijing and Shanghai seeing chaos in their power grid for three consecutive days.
China lags behind the US in terms of social understanding about virtual space.
Compared with other countries, it is more urgent for China to consolidate its Internet security. As a rising power, China is seen as a competitor by the US. But meanwhile, China's IT structure is still very weak, and China cannot simply isolate itself for the sake of security. It can rely upon no one else but itself to find out the way to build proper "Internet defenses" for such a complicated developing country.
China has to accelerate development and innovation of key Internet technology, which is the prerequisite to ensure security.
Systematic collaboration is also needed, including top-level strategic design, cooperation between government agencies and between government and enterprises, as well as fostering social awareness of Internet security.
Washington has refused to transfer Internet control to the UN despite worldwide appeals. The US own national interest dominates virtual society, which is the biggest tacit rule of the global Internet.
China should be alarmed by the serious DNS outage, and take action to avoid as many traps on the Internet as possible. We cannot remove all those traps, but we can become increasingly sophisticated in dealing with them.
Analysts blame faults in 'Great firewall' for China web outage
Financial Times-6 hours ago
A high-level malfunction in China's internet architecture put as many as two-thirds of the country's domain websites out of action for several ...
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The Malay Mail Online-17 hours ago
The Xinhua report quoted Chinese security experts saying the outage could have been exploited by hackers, or could have been the result of
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/chinese-internet-traffic-redirected-to-small-wyoming-house/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming House
By NICOLE PERLROTH
Reuters
A large portion of China’s 500 million
Internet users were unable to load websites ending in .com, .net or .org
for nearly eight hours in most regions of China, according to
Compuware, a Detroit-based technology company.
The China Internet Network Information
Center, a state-run agency that deals with Internet affairs, said it had
traced the problem to the country’s domain name system. And one of
China’s biggest antivirus software vendors, Qihoo 360 Technology, said
the problems affected roughly three-quarters of the country’s domain
name system servers.
Those servers, which act as a switchboard for
Internet traffic behind China’s Great Firewall, routed traffic from
some of China’s most popular sites, including Baidu and Sina, to a block
of Internet addresses registered to Sophidea Incorporated, a mysterious company housed on a residential street in Cheyenne, Wyo.
A simple Google search reveals that the address on Thomes Avenue in Cheyenne is not a corporate headquarters, but a 1,700-square-foot brick house with a manicured lawn.
That address — which is home to some 2,000 companies on paper — was the subject of a lengthy 2011 Reuters investigation
that found that among the entities registered to the address were a
shell company controlled by a jailed former Ukraine prime minister; the
owner of a company charged with helping online poker operators evade an
Internet gambling ban; and one entity that was banned from government
contracts after selling counterfeit truck parts to the Pentagon.
Wyoming Corporate Services,
the registered agent for Sophidea Incorporated, according to Internet
records, did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday afternoon.
It was not immediately clear what caused the traffic shift Tuesday. One Chinese newspaper suspected a cyberattack.
But by late Tuesday, some technologists had come to an alternate
theory: a backfiring of China’s own Internet censoring system.
Sophidea appears to be a service that
redirects traffic from one address to another to mask a person’s
whereabouts — or to evade a firewall.
Some technologists surmised Tuesday that the
disruption may have been caused by Chinese Internet censors who
attempted to block traffic to Sophidea’s websites but mistakenly
redirected traffic to the service instead.
That theory was buttressed by the fact that a
separate wave of Chinese Internet traffic Tuesday was simultaneously
redirected to Internet addresses owned by Dynamic Internet Technology, a
company that helps people evade China’s Great Firewall, and is
typically blocked in China.
Bill Xia, who created Dynamic Internet Technology in 2001, told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday
that his company had nothing to do with the traffic shift and also
suspected that the problem was the doing of China’s own Internet
censors.
Nicole Perlroth reported from San Francisco. David Barboza contributed reporting from Shanghai.
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