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Wikileaks: Hackers cons climatologists
| 10.12.10 | 10:33 p.m. • Updated 10.12.10 | 10:33 p.m.
A few days before the opening of the summit in Copenhagen in 2009, the private correspondence of climate was hacked into servers at a British university. Selected pieces of these emails were exposed on the Internet to suggest a scientific conspiracy intended to indicate to the idea of warming due to human activities.
This Climategate, it is almost never mentioned in diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks and consulted by Le Monde. Only two telegrams - from embassies in Berlin and Ankara - mention the matter, merely to cite newspaper articles.
Dated June 19, 2009, one notes, however, tells another attempt at hacking, it also clearly linked to the impending climate conference.This attack, which failed, was not intended to take control of computers from a university or research center: it was nothing less than the Division of Ocean Affairs, attached to the office business climate, he turn depends on the U.S. State Department.
"HIGH RISK"
Five employees of this administration in the summer of 2009, and have received an email titled "China and Climate Change", "disguised to appear as directed by a business editor of National Journal. "And the body of the message contained comments designed to appeal specifically to recipients in line with their function," says the note.
Attached to the message was "a PDF file containing a malicious program" which, if activated, would have allowed a silent takeover of the computer in question. Moreover, one or more of the five targeted employees have actually opened the attachment.
But the writer of the note adds that the latest security updates, corrections made on targeted machines, made the attack ineffective. "As negotiations on climate change continues, it is likely that intrusion attempts such as this persist," the telegram, which requires "personnel involved in climate change issues or topics related to stay aware high risk "posed by such emails.
Stéphane Foucart
| 10.12.10 | 10:33 p.m. • Updated 10.12.10 | 10:33 p.m.
A few days before the opening of the summit in Copenhagen in 2009, the private correspondence of climate was hacked into servers at a British university. Selected pieces of these emails were exposed on the Internet to suggest a scientific conspiracy intended to indicate to the idea of warming due to human activities.
This Climategate, it is almost never mentioned in diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks and consulted by Le Monde. Only two telegrams - from embassies in Berlin and Ankara - mention the matter, merely to cite newspaper articles.
Dated June 19, 2009, one notes, however, tells another attempt at hacking, it also clearly linked to the impending climate conference.This attack, which failed, was not intended to take control of computers from a university or research center: it was nothing less than the Division of Ocean Affairs, attached to the office business climate, he turn depends on the U.S. State Department.
"HIGH RISK"
Five employees of this administration in the summer of 2009, and have received an email titled "China and Climate Change", "disguised to appear as directed by a business editor of National Journal. "And the body of the message contained comments designed to appeal specifically to recipients in line with their function," says the note.
Attached to the message was "a PDF file containing a malicious program" which, if activated, would have allowed a silent takeover of the computer in question. Moreover, one or more of the five targeted employees have actually opened the attachment.
But the writer of the note adds that the latest security updates, corrections made on targeted machines, made the attack ineffective. "As negotiations on climate change continues, it is likely that intrusion attempts such as this persist," the telegram, which requires "personnel involved in climate change issues or topics related to stay aware high risk "posed by such emails.
Stéphane Foucart
Original Le Monde article at http://www.lemonde.fr/documents-wikileaks/article/2010/12/10/wikileaks-pirates-informatiques-contre-climatologues_1452010_1446239.html
WikiLeaks : pirates informatiques contre climatologues
| 10.12.10 | 22h33 • Mis à jour le 10.12.10 | 22h33
Quelques jours avant l'ouverture du sommet de Copenhague, en 2009, la correspondance privée de climatologues était piratée dans les serveurs d'une université britannique. Des morceaux choisis de ces courriels étaient exposés sur Internet afin de suggérer un complot scientifique destiné à faire croire à l'idée d'un réchauffement dû aux activités humaines.
De ce "Climategate", il n'est à peu près jamais question dans les câbles diplomatiques obtenus par WikiLeaks et consultés par Le Monde. Seuls deux télégrammes – provenant des ambassades de Berlin et d'Ankara – mentionnent l'affaire, se contentant de citer des articles de presse.
Datée du 19 juin 2009, l'une des notes relate cependant une autre tentative de piratage informatique, elle aussi manifestement liée à l'imminence de la conférence sur le climat. Cette attaque, qui a échoué, ne visait pas à prendre le contrôle des ordinateurs d'une université ou d'un centre de recherches : elle ne visait rien de moins que la Division of Ocean Affairs, rattachée au bureau des affaires climatiques, lui-même dépendant du département d'Etat américain.
"RISQUE ÉLEVÉ"
Cinq employés de cette administration, à l'été 2009, ont ainsi reçu un courriel intitulé "Chine et changement climatique", "maquillé pour apparaître comme adressé par un chroniqueur économique du National Journal". "De plus le corps du message contenait des commentaires conçus pour s'adresser spécifiquement aux destinataires, en ligne avec leur fonction", précise la note.
Attaché au message se trouvait "un fichier PDF renfermant un programme malveillant" qui, s'il avait été activé, aurait permis une prise de contrôle silencieuse de l'ordinateur visé. Au demeurant, un ou plusieurs des cinq employés ciblés ont bel et bien ouvert la pièce jointe.
Mais le rédacteur de la note ajoute que les mises à jour de sécurité, correctement effectuées sur les machines ciblées, ont rendu inopérante l'attaque. "Comme les négociations sur le changement climatique continuent, il est probable que des tentatives d'intrusion comme celle-ci persistent", ajoute le télégramme, qui enjoint "les personnels impliqués dans les questions de changement climatique ou les sujets liés de demeurer conscients du risque élevé" posé par de tels courriels.
Stéphane Foucart
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