China's 'Great Cannon' Uses DDoS Style Redirects for Censorship
The 'Great Firewall' was designed to block unwanted traffic, but the 'Great Cannon' is a far more sinister.
The hack on Sony last November, allegedly perpetrated by North Korea, marked somewhat of a new age in internet security. It showed everyone that corporate cyber espionage, and international cyber war are no longer the domain of science fiction. A report published on CitizenLab.org details evidence of a Chinese state-sponsored cyber weapon: the “great cannon.”
The report was a collaboration between researchers from the University of Toronto, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University and the International Computer Science Institute.
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