Cyberattacks on US military from China have jumped sharply in 2009

"China's defiantly initiating attacks,"

According to the US Strategic Command, in the first half of 2009 there have been over 43,000 cyber attacks against US Defense system. In 2008 there was a total of 54,640 cyber attacks. And most of the cyber attacks originated from...China.

In 2000 there were a total of 1,415 cyber attacks reported. Since 2001 the cyber attacks between China and the US really heated up after China detained the crew of the EP-3 aircraft.

From Network World

Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday.

Citing data provided by the U.S. Strategic Command, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense systems in the first half of the year. That's a big jump. In all of 2008, there were 54,640 such incidents. If cyber attacks maintain this pace, they will jump 60% this year.[...]

"The quantity of malicious computer activities against he United states increased in 2008 and is rising sharply in 2009," the report states. "Much of this activity appears to originate in China."