China Denies Pentagon Cyber-Raid – BBC News

From BBC News:

China has denied reports that its military hacked into the computer network of the US Department of Defense in Washington. A foreign ministry official said the claims “reflected Cold War mentality”. The Financial Times quoted US officials as saying the Chinese army made the attack, which crashed part of a system for the defence secretary’s office.

Last week China dismissed reports that its armed forces had infiltrated German government computer systems. The reports come as US President George W Bush prepared to meet his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, at the Apec summit in Sydney, Australia….[Full Text]

[Image: The Pentagon shut down the network for more than a week, via BBC News]