The above VF article is actually a web exclusive to a longer article for the print edition. The hacking of the UN and International Olympic Committee -which the web exclusive and media dwell upon- are marginal-issues next to what is revealed in the longer article.


Enter the Cyber-dragon, by Michael Joseph Gross. Vanity Fair, September 2011.
Hackers have attacked America’s defense establishment, as well as companies from Google to Morgan Stanley to security giant RSA, and fingers point to China as the culprit. The author gets an exclusive look at the raging cyber-war—Operation Aurora! Operation Shady rat!—and learns why Washington has been slow to fight back.