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Black Duck Eggs and Other Secrets of Chinese Hackers Attacks on U.S. Web sites far more ominous than laughable Google hack, By Robert Mullins on Tue, 05/18/10 - 5:12pm. Black duck eggs on the menu of a Chinese restaurant drew the suspicions of a security consultant reporting to renowned security expert Ira Winkler. The colleague, a former Russian security agent named Stan (Stan Petters, former Soviet GRU in Wash, DC, who spoke at BIW in ‘05?), was at a new Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere in the United States, but conspicuously near the RD center of a Fortune 500 U.S. business. Dont you know black duck eggs are a delicacy in China? Stan asked. I cant get black duck eggs in San Francisco, let alone this little piece of crap town in the middle of nowhere. Stans conclusion was that the Chinese restaurant was a front for a Chinese espionage operation targeting the Fortune 500 business. Thats an example of how they work, said Winkler, president of Internet Security Advisors Group, in a Web cast today hosted by the RSA. It was a follow up to a presentation he made at the annual RSA Conference 2010 held in March in San Francisco. Winkler, who considers the attention and outrage paid to the reported attack on Google from inside China last year to be laughable, says Chinese espionage and cyber espionage is far more pervasive than anyone realizes, and that physical and computer security systems are extremely ill-equipped to deal with it. Although computer defenses can and should be improved, Winkler thinks those operating computer networks need to be much more aware of the scope of the threats. Listening to the Web cast was an eye opener, making me realize that as robust as the network security market may be, the bad guys may be more robust. Besides continually innovating at hacking computer networks in the U.S. and globally, Chinese interests also hack companies physically by infiltrating them with people who can then be recruited as spies, Winkler said. A U.