China’s Growing Internet Market Blog
10 Aug
American businessmen and tourists, who intend to travel china and visit the Olympics Games, are at a high risk of getting hacked by local young hackers. Even the private cell phone is at risk: The hackers try to get information from the Americans who travel china, by entering their private mobile telephone.
U.S. officials have been sending strict warnings, for the sake of the Americans who plan to visit China in the nearest future.
Though the fear of hacked computers and mobiles is in fact exists, the American authorities try to quiet this information, and not to accuse the Chinese government or its army of hacking into its network. Without any valid proof, this accusation might cause an international crisis that will harm both countries.
Online spying is becoming more sophisticated and common. The young Chinese hackers are trying to copy information from the computers located at the hotels and airports. After that, they are trying to insert wireless spying software- to the Blackberry device of the selected “victim”. The Bluetooth technology is also being used in the hacking industry; the online burglars using it to still information from electrical devices.
While health warnings are published in the media, there isn’t any organization that warns the tourists on their way to china, from being hacked while visiting the Great Wall of China or watching the Olympic Games in Beijing. The online threats are lurking out there, and there is nothing to do about it.