US web traffic rerouted via China Telecom

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

17 November 2010 Last updated at 13:53

The traffic to some highly sensitive US websites was briefly rerouted via China, the US government has said.

The incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April, is published in a report by the US-China Economic and Security review commission.

It found that China Telecom sent incorrect routing information, but it is not clear whether it was intentional.

It comes amid continuing discussions in the US and the UK about cyber-security.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11773146

[slackmaster]

1. BFD. It's the Internet. Traffic to and from the "sensitive" sites was still encrypted.

:nuke:

[no limit]

2. I didn't read the article but that depends on the attack used. they could do a man in the middle

attack. Although that would throw up some serious red flags about certificate erros if it targeted less technical users they could have ignored that.

[Roma]

3. Well I'm not surprised.

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