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Cybercriminals continue to target Tibetan activists, but as it turns out, they slightly changed their attack tactics. Experts found that they are sending out emails that purport to contain instructions on how to use “Tibetan Input Method for Apple iOS 4.2 devices.”
It all starts with an email that carrie... |
14 April 2012
05:36 GMT |
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The Chinese hacker 7z1 and his EvilShadow crew breached and defaced the main websites of Corporation Bank (corpbank.com) and Catholic Syrian Bank (csb.co.in), a couple of the most important financial institutions in India. According to the hackers' blog, the Indian banks were targeted because of the country&rsq... |
29 March 2012
06:12 GMT |
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A few days back AlienVault researchers reported that cybercriminals were launching spearphishing attacks that targeted Tibetan activist organizations. After the story was published, the Chinese hackers changed their tactics and used AlienVault’s research to enhance the success of their campaign. “We rece... |
26 March 2012
10:57 GMT |
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A report made by China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team and Coordination Center reveals that a number of 8.9 million cyberattacks from abroad have targeted the country in 2011. The figures show that Japan was responsible for 22.8% of attacks, closely followed by the United States wi... |
21 March 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Tibet and its freedom are a highly popular topic these days on social media networks and apparently someone is trying to sabotage these conversations on Twitter by using bots that post meaningless tweets to disturb those interested in the subject. We’ve seen a similar situation some time ago when anti-Kremlin ... |
20 March 2012
05:05 GMT |
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While some hackers deface Chinese government sites demanding the freedom of Tibet, others target organizations such as the Central Tibet Administration and International Campaign for Tibet to show that the much desired freedom won’t be obtained easily.
AlienVault Lab experts report that the attacks are launche... |
15 March 2012
11:14 GMT |
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“Catholics will never fail!” reads the message posted on 12 websites owned by the Chinese government by poltergeisth4cker from Netherlands, who claims to be part of the Anonymous community.
Cyber War News informs that the hacker, who is known for supporting Tibet, defaced the government sites as part of ... |
15 March 2012
10:33 GMT |
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A Dutch hacker allegedly part of Anonymous hacked and defaced a number of 68 sites with the purpose of posting protest messages against China’s domination over Tibet.
Cyber War News informs that 45 sites were defaced in the first part of the operation and another 23 the next day. All of the defacements were ca... |
25 February 2012
07:57 GMT |
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Astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) have recently collected a series of images depicting an alpine lake in Tibet. Upon reviewing the photos, scientists determined that the landscape feature was covered with intricate patterns of ice cracks, which could not be readily explained.
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24 September 2011
03:42 GMT |
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People have been flocking to Twitter for a while now, famous people, that is. The gold rush may have slowed down in recent months but there are still plenty of celebrities or otherwise public figures joining Twitter all the time. Why, New Orleans rapper extraordinaire Lil Wayne joined and started tweeting away a coup... |
23 February 2010
10:08 GMT |
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The first half of the Qingzang railway, connecting mainland China to the Tibet Autonomous Region, was opened in 1984, when authorities inaugurated an 815-kilometer-long section of tracks, stretching from Xining to Golmud. The entire “iron road” was completed in 2006, when an additional 1142 kilometers wer... |
6 May 2009
09:17 GMT |
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Since the early 1990s, land- and mountain-based glaciers worldwide have been in a constant process of withdrawal, with devastating consequences to global fresh water supplies, which mostly depend on these sources. Asian glaciers, in particular, pose the highest threat because they fuel several large rivers, that, in ... |
28 November 2008
05:36 GMT |
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The Sino-Tibetan mountainous chain, also called the "the Alps of Sichuan", are located between Tibet and China. The highest peak is Gongga (7,556 m or 25,186 ft), China's highest peak outside Himalaya, located in the Hengduan Mountains. The Sino-Tibetan chain is the place on Earth where the terrestrial crust exp... |
11 April 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Hackers have always been concentrated on the websites promoting popular events and, if there was a vulnerability to be exploited, they showed no mercy. This is exactly the case with multiple pro-Tibetan websites as some hackers managed to discover an unpatched vulnerability and used it to gain access to the servers. ... |
10 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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People supporting the Tibetan cause have more to worry about than Chinese censorship and retaliation, there's a new wave of attacks aimed at them and in many aspects it's far more dangerous. The human rights groups that are sympathetic to the anti-Chinese protesters are targeted by cybercriminals, and the m... |
24 March 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn't have the upper hand. There's only on... |
21 March 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Like I reported earlier, censorship is so present in China before the Olympic Games, almost like it was running for gold. Now, it hits everywhere that has something, even remotely, to do with more people than, say, one. The forums are starting to feel the cold, chilly breath of censors down their threads, and even u... |
19 March 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Tired of reading about the Chinese government censoring the media and then going halfway for the compromise? Well, you're not going to enjoy knowing that it happened again, and in a period that was supposed to show the world that all is not as bad as dissidents make is sound like. The first pointer that the gove... |
19 March 2008
05:13 GMT |
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The yak is a long-haired type of cattle, bred from Himalaya (Nepal) to Tibet, Mongolia and surrounding regions. This is an animal perfectly adapted to high altitudes; it does not get altitude sickness, like other burden beasts. The yak is much better adapted for transporting loads across the Himalayan passages than t... |
28 February 2008
08:42 GMT |
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You would get sick and disabled in the low oxygen conditions that are to be found at a hight of 14,763 feet (4,500 meters), which is the average altitude of the Tibetan Plateau. Yet, the Tibetans ruled empires from the 'roof' of the world.Such heights have defeated many mountain climbers, as the shortage of... |
30 October 2007
03:52 GMT |
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The mysterious Tibet is experiencing a cultural shock between the Lamaist Buddhism, with its spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who fled in 1959, and the Chinese modernization, the emergent power which is changing Tibet as it had not made it since the People's Army put an end to the theocracy in 1951. The spirit again... |
29 September 2007
05:48 GMT |
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At the current global warming rate, 30% of the world's highest glaciers will be gone by 2050 and by 2090, 50% will be history. The melting of Tibet's massive glaciers will have a deep impact on south and southeastern Asia, but for the people inhabiting the region this remains a vague concept. Even at the co... |
5 March 2007
06:55 GMT |
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