{"id":34526,"date":"2021-07-29T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/china-propped-the-doors-open-for-criminals-in-microsoft-hack-australian-spy-agency-boss-says"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:14:09","slug":"china-propped-the-doors-open-for-criminals-in-microsoft-hack-australian-spy-agency-boss-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34526","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018propped the doors open\u2019 for criminals in Microsoft hack, Australian spy agency boss says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Noble said the Chinese government\u2019s actions \u2018crossed a line\u2019 as she spoke at an inquiry on proposed cyber laws<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s top cyber spy says China\u2019s actions in the hack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/uk-allies-accuse-chinese-state-backed-group-microsoft-hack\">Microsoft Exchange email server software<\/a> were akin to propping open the doors of thousands of homes and leaving them ajar for criminals to get inside. <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Noble, the director general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), drew the analogy as she said the Chinese government\u2019s actions had \u201ccrossed a line\u201d, prompting the Australian government to join with the United States and other countries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/australia-joins-allies-in-accusing-china-of-malicious-cyber-activities\">publicly point the finger at Beijing last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/china-propped-the-doors-open-for-criminals-in-microsoft-hack-australian-spy-agency-boss-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Noble said the Chinese government\u2019s actions \u2018crossed a line\u2019 as she spoke at an inquiry on proposed cyber lawsAustralia\u2019s top cyber spy says China\u2019s actions in the hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software were akin to propping open the d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,50,987,1707,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-cybercrime","category-microsoft","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34527,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions\/34527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}