Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency

Germany's government has named China-controlled actors as the perpetrators of a 2021 cyber attack on the Federal Office of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) – the official mapping agency. The nation's Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs on Wednesday published an assertion that China infiltrated the Office’s systems to …

[pavlecom]

.. oh-ah my gosh

Just thinking, is that Merkel finds the cyber intruder, a king of espionage act as last time, or Germany find who blows the main source of their "healthy" vassal economy, North Stream pipe lines.

Any thinking of US, in any form, is complicit in any of those acts including the act mentioned in the article, is more than an nonsense indeed.

[Casca]

Re: .. oh-ah my gosh

Do you get paid for each comment?

[Evil Auditor]

Re: .. oh-ah my gosh

So I'm going to downvote you. And the only disappointment is that I only get to do it once.

_{Hey, I'm just a keyboard warrior, too.}

[Cav]

Re: .. oh-ah my gosh

Google translate, Chinese to English, is hopeless, isn't it?

[DS999]

Re: .. oh-ah my gosh

He's a Russian troll

[pavlecom]

P.S.

.. & utterly disgusting.

[Casca]

Re: P.S.

Good of you to prove what a moronic troll you are

[Anonymous Coward]

Attack of the Chinese cyber attackers :o

Find out who is responciple for cyber security at the BKG and fire them

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser:

“.. Just last week, we in the Federal Cabinet introduced another law to further increase cybersecurity and to better arm ourselves against state and criminal cyberattacks.”

Yea, it's well known that computer systems can be protected with legal waffle /s

[Shalghar]

Re: Attack of the Chinese cyber attackers :o

Of course they can. Just imagine, instead of a meager 256 bit key you use a collection of the longest laws possible.

Or leave it plaintext to induce nausea whenever a "hacker" tries to read in.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Attack of the Chinese cyber attackers :o

Or get people like Matt Brown to design their security modules.

Uncovering Hardcoded Root Password in VStarcam CB73 Security Camera