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China and the U.S. have agreed to collaborate in cyber space in an attempt to avoid avoid any future crises, BBC reports. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chinese defense leader Liang Guanglie met Monday in Washington to discuss territorial disputes in the South China Sea, arms sales to Taiwan, North Korea’s nuclear program and cybersecurity. [...]
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Experts told House lawmakers this week that they believe Iran is a bigger threat than China or Russia, having passed developmental stages for offensive capabilities and moved onto defensive efforts in cyberspace, GCN reports. Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, told attendees of a joint House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee meeting that [...]
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Iranian officials are claiming that they successfully decoded a U.S. drone that was captured last year, Reuters reports. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division, told the state news agency that Iranian engineers were close to completing the decoding for the Sentinel. Iran reported that it captured the unmanned aircraft in [...]
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Reports surfaced Monday that the Chinese military has begun to field unmanned surveillance aircraft aboard its warship fleets, The Hill reports. Foreign intelligence agencies have confirmed the existence of a Chinese-built maritime drone used on the People’s Liberation Naval ships, according to the online news agency United Press International. Additional reports have come out of the [...]
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Top defense and intelligence officials told Senate lawmakers Tuesday that the U.S. needs a new strategy to approach persistent cyber attacks, AOL Defense reports. According to James Peery of the Energy Department’s Sandria National Laboratories, the U.S. should adopt an attitude where it presumes the adversary is constantly on the networks. Ken Gabriel, acting director for the [...]
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Northrop Grumman Corp. warned Congress in a report Thursday that China poses a genuine cyberwarfare risk to the U.S. military in conflict, Reuters reports. Northrop issued a 136-page report to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, suggesting China is adamant in creating diverse and technically advanced cyberspace abilities. Northrop said Chinese cyber capabilities have [...]
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Rogue hackers pose a problem for the nation’s cyber defenses, but according to a cybersecurity expert and an ambassador to the U.S., the biggest threat comes from much larger forces. At a Thursday event, Dmitri Alperovitch, president of Asymmetric Cyber Operations LLC, put nation states ahead of other threats such as terrorist groups, hacktivist collectives [...]
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China’s Range Technology Development Co. Ltd. has partnered with the Technology Services division of HP to build an energy-efficient, cloud-based data center. The data center is set to span over 7,500 square meters in Langfang, Hebei province. “To meet our customers’ pressing needs for cloud services, we need to create a data center in line with [...]
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SAP AG announced that Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd., China’s largest bottled water producer, has deployed SAP HANA to tackle its big data challenges. Nongfu Spring joins the growing list of customers that have recently implemented SAP HANA. Nongfu Spring has seven production bases and dozens of factories. Achieving real-time visibility into data was critical for the [...]
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IBM announced this week the continued adoption of its smarter computing systems, software and services across China’s private and public sectors. IBM is working with the China National Bureau of Statistics, Guizhou Provincial Health Department and Guizhou Mobile to help each build more advanced IT environments based on IBM’s optimized system architecture, data and analytics [...]
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