0 White House Attacked by Hackers

Washington -  in the White House computer network, the United States, the target of hacker attacks. There are allegations, attacks by hackers from China that are being intensively targeting U.S. defense facilities.

It is delivered by a White House official, the BBC reported citing a Washington media, Free Beacon, Monday, October 1, 2012. The unnamed official said the attack hackers managed to penetrate the White House, did not mention any network.

He explained that no data is lost in the attack. Free Beacon wrote, that the attack was coming from hackers from China. The White House declined to comment on the alleged attack China.

According to White House sources, sends hacker attack "spear-phishing". This attack works by sending fake emails that look like official correspondence with a link. If the link is opened, it will go to a site that damage or virus release.

"Attacks of this kind are frequent and we have been doing a precautionary measure," the source said.

Cyber ​​attacks by Chinese hackers increased in recent months, especially against U.S. military facilities in the pentagon. "The level of their attempts against the U.S. Defense Department is very intense," said Rear Adm. Samuel Cox told Reuters last week.

In addition to sending a fake email, Chinese hackers attacked Google last year to break into the Gmail accounts of hundreds of people, among them are U.S. government officials and military personnel. At that time, for the first time, U.S. intelligence officials accused China of stealing their confidential data.