China launching cyber attacks against Defense Dept

Published May 18, 2012 4:00am ET



The Chinese government is increasingly lauching cyber attacks against the United States Defense Department (DOD) for intelligence purposes, according to a new government report on the Chinese military.

“I think we have concerns about a number of computer network operations and activities that appear to originate from China that affect DOD networks,” David Helvey, acting assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia told reporters today.

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