International Law

Social Malware goes on a Pilgrimage

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One assumes the general profile of visitors to Dharamshala consists of buddhists, wannabe buddhists and intelligence agents. And now we add one more - snooping social engineered malware.

Apparently this form of snooping software has been making steady inroads into the Dalai Lama’s administration.  In a University of Cambridge report titled “The snooping dragon:social-malware surveillance
of the Tibetan movement” by two researchers Shishir Nagaraja and Ross Anderson, Chinese espionage efforts against the Tibetan Government-in-exile are brought to light. They indicate a range of sophisticated techniques use to infiltrate US and Indian servers as well as computers and email accounts used by the monks for their works as part of the Tibetan administration.

Full post as published by Technology Law India on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).