Chinese Telecom Company Hijacked 15 Percent of Internet
NASA, DOD, Senate traffic re-routed through Chinese servers last spring, study finds For about 18 minutes in April, a Chinese telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the Internet, redirecting U.S. government and military traffic through Chinese servers. The misdirection affected NASA, all four branches of the military, the office of the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Senate. We don't yet know what this means - the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which released report on the incident today, says it is unclear whether it was intentional or just an accident - but at the very least, it's one more piece of disturbing evidence showing the U.S. is vulnerable to cyberattack. The hijacking was reported when it first happened, but this is the first acknowledgement that American government sites were affected. Along with the military and organizations like NASA and NOAA, the redirect affected commercial websites like Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft and IBM,...