The Chinese Communist Party is devoting an unprecedented level of resources to growing China’s cyber-war capabilities, according to Asian Times. The issue of cyber war and cyberspace espionage is featured heavily in the drafts of the 12th Five-Year Plan, which is being drafted by the government and the People’s Liberation Army. Hu Jintao, president and [...]
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Police in the Hubei Province, China, have closed down a hacker training center and arrested three individuals, according to XinhuaNet. The three individuals, who ran the Black Hawk Safety Net, are accused of providing hacker tools, which was recently made illegal in China’s criminal code. The Black Hawk Safety Net has recruited more than 12,000 [...]
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U.S. government networks are consistently probed for vulnerabilities by hackers and foreign intelligence agencies. The difficulty of attribution combined with the ease of access and decreased physical risk makes cyber espionage a favorite tool of more advanced intelligence services. Foreign governments seek information for U.S.-based networks for a variety of reasons, including intelligence gathering and [...]
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The Chinese are actively conducting espionage against corporate targets in the United Kingdom, according to Britain’s domestic intelligence service, The Security Service or MI5. The agency circulated a “restricted” warning to U.K. business people warning that the Chinese are seeking to leverage sex and gifts to exploit businesses. According to the report, titled “The Threat [...]
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Most Sectors Not Prepared for Cyber Attack, Yet the Chinese are Best at Cybersecurity?
January 28, 2010 No CommentThe United Stats is perhaps the most-networked nation in the world. We use information technology networks to conduct business, bank, shop and even conduct warfare. One of the greatest assets of the U.S. infrastructure is the prevalence of IT networks. It allows us to access information rapidly and conduct essential transactions. This absolute reliance on [...]
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Since the cyber attacks against Google earlier this month, China and the United States have engaged in a “war of words: over cyberspace policy. Over the weekend, China accused the United States of conducting cyber warfare. The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper, said in an editorial: “The U.S. was the first country in the [...]
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The websites run by human rights activists in China were hit in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the weekend, according to a report on ComputerWorld.com. The Chinese Human Rights Defenders were targeted in a DDoS attack which lasted 16 hours. The group is unclear of the origins of the attack but identify [...]
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Late last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton critized China’s use of Internet censorship and its lack of support for Internet freedom in a speech in Washington, DC. Following the remarks, the Chinese responded calling the US “information imperialist[s]” and stating that accusations against China were false. The Chinese have claimed that US criticism of [...]
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking a gathering at the Newseum yesterday, called for greater Internet freedom and greater cooperation with the international community in combating cyber threats. “Disruptions in these systems demand a coordinated response by all governments, the private sector, and the international community,” she said. As law enforcement looks increasingly toward combating [...]
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Following the cyber attack by the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ on Chinese search engine Baidu, the company has filed a lawsuit against the domain registrar in a New York court. The DNS record attack redirected web users to a defaced web page instead of the search engine site. According to the lawsuit, the attack occurred because [...]
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