Weak Evidence Links Congressmen's Cyber-Attacks to China
Nearly 12 percent of all Web servers using China's .cn domain space are considered risky because they may be associated with spam, adware or computer attacks, according to security firm McAfee.
Representative Smith's office did not return a call seeking comment.
A spokeswoman for Congressman Wolf's office refused to provide any more detail on the attacks or to say what evidence linked the attacks to China. "Everything we have to say is in our press release," she said.
That's not good enough for Richard Smith, an Internet security consultant with Boston Software Forensics. "If someone is going to make these kind of charges, they really need to be willing to produce the hard evidence," he said via e-mail. "Perhaps the office is embarrassed that a staffer accidentally shared their C: drive with the entire Internet."
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