China Attacks Dalai Lama's Computer Network

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China hacks Dalai's comp network

 

Press Trust of India

 

Beijing, September 25: Responding to accusations that the

Chinese government tried to break into the Dalai Lama's

computer network, a government spokeswoman said on

Wednesday that Beijing opposes all forms of computer hacking.

 

The spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry's press division said

she had no details on the accusation by the computer manager

for the Tibetan Government in Exile.

However, she said, "the Chinese government always opposes

the activities of hackers".

 

The spokeswoman, contacted by telephone, wouldn't give her

name.

 

Jigme Tsering, manager of the Tibetan Computer Resource

Centre (TCRC) in Dharmsala in India, asserted on Tuesday that

Chinese hackers had designed a special virus to plug into the

network and steal information.

 

Tsering said activist groups around the world lobbying on behalf

of Tibetans were also targeted by the virus, which was attached

to an e-mail designed to look as if it came from the TCRC office.

 

Tsering said the e-mail, which could also have taken information

off hard disks, had six return addresses in China, including

universities and government institutions.

 

He claimed hackers sent the virus to the centre at least twice,

between late August and September 15.