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‘Islamic State hackers’ attack top tier Chinese university’s website urging holy war

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‘Islamic State hackers’ attack top tier Chinese university’s website urging holy war


PUBLISHED : Monday, 18 January, 2016, 11:34am
UPDATED : Monday, 18 January, 2016, 11:53am

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The website hacked at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Photo: SCMP Pictures

One of the most famous universities in China says its website has been hacked by a group or person claiming to be linked to the militant organisation Islamic State.

The hackers put a photograph and audio in support of holy war, or jihad, on a Tsinghua University website for teachers and students, the Legal Evening News said.

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A member of staff at the college’s computer management centres confirmed to the South China Morning Post that the hacking had taken place, but declined to give further details.

It may be the first time that hackers linked to the militant group have attacked a web site based in China.

The hackers left a message in English on the site, according to the newspaper report.

“Everything is OK in the end. If it’s not OK, then it’s not the end”.

The comments were signed “Islamic State Hacker”.

The affected website has been shut down by the university to “prevent further spreading of the message”, the Legal Evening News said.

Other websites on the Beijing university’s server, including its homepage, remained unaffected.

Tsinghua is one of the top state universities in China and is involved in many defence and national security research projects.

Its websites have often been the target of cyber attacks, but it is not clear why it should be singled out by Islamic State.

China’s government says Islamic militants blamed for a serious of violent attacks in the country’s Xinjiang region in recent years have links to IS.

The university’s websites are regarded as better maintained and protected than many government websites.

READ MORE: China says global war on terror should also target Uygur militants

Tsinghua was one of the birth places of information technology in China with one of the strongest cybersecurity technical teams.

A technician at the university involved with the investigation told the Legal Evening News the website might have used a relatively weak password, which compromised its security.

It is unlikely that Islamic State hackers had acquired the advanced technology to break Tsinghua’s firewall, the technician said.

China was declared one of 18 enemy states by Islamic State last year.



 

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Uighur will take up arms but hui chinese muslim will most likely not respond.
 

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Tsinghua University was where where the tragic, slow, painful, deliberate thallium poisoning of a young, intelligent and talented chiobu occured (poisoned by her rich and family-powerful jealous roommate, whose family's political connections got her off the hook and scot-free to this day) until she became permanently mentally retarded and body-paralyzed for the rest of her utterly miserable life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Ling_(poisoning_victim)

In 1994, Zhu Ling was a sophomore in Class Wuhua2 (Class 2 majored in Physical Chemistry) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Classmates described her as attractive, intelligent, and talented, with an interest in music. She began to show strange and debilitating symptoms at the end of 1994, when she reported experiencing acute stomach pain, non-stop vomiting, along with extensive hair loss. Following her hospitalization at TongRen Hospital, her condition gradually improved and she was allowed to return to school. The following March, however, her old symptoms returned worse than before, this time accompanied by pain in her legs, loss of muscular eye control, and partial facial paralysis. Unable to breathe on her own, she was placed on a respirator.

One physician at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Dr. Li Shun-wei, reported having diagnosed a similar poisoning case in the 1960s and strongly suspected that Zhu Ling's symptoms were caused by thallium poisoning. However, Zhu Ling denied that she had had any contact with thallium in class, a claim which was confirmed by her university's chemistry department. As a result, her doctors ruled out thallium poisoning as a potential cause. Instead, she was diagnosed with and treated for Guillain–Barré syndrome. Her condition deteriorated rapidly.

Frustrated with local physicians' inability to help Zhu Ling, her friends Cai Quanqing and Bei Zhicheng, undergraduate students in Peking University, posted an "SOS" letter on a number of Internet usenet groups on April 10, 1995, describing their friend's symptoms and asking for help with a diagnosis. It was remarkable that by 1995 only a few research institutes in China had Internet connections, including Cai's advisor. Responses began pouring in within a matter of hours, and news reports hailed the event as a milestone in remote diagnosis by Internet, especially in China. Of the more than 1,500 responses which Zhu Ling's friends received, roughly one-third proposed that she was suffering from thallium poisoning, the common antidote for which is known as Prussian blue.

Subsequent tests confirmed that Zhu Ling had extraordinarily high levels of thallium in her body, about 10,000 times more than normal people. Doctors were able to administer the antidote, Prussian blue in time to save her life, but she sustained serious permanent neurological damage. While she has recovered the ability to breathe on her own, she still cannot speak and remains largely paralyzed and almost blind, with severely reduced mental function.
 
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