Apple Excluded from Official Procurement [Updated]
Bloomberg’s Steven Yang and Lulu Yilun Chen report that Apple laptops and tablets have been...
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CCP’s Tricky Search For Online Security
The Chinese Communist Party “showed how concerned it is about its control over the...
China Seeks Quantum Codebreaking at Any Cost
Following recent Snowden revelations about the American NSA’s efforts towards quantum...
New York Times Hacking Highlights Other Cases
The New York Times admitted on Wednesday that it had been the victim of a four-month hacking campaign, apparently in response to its probing of premier Wen Jiabao’s family’s wealth. The attacks, it reported, seemed...
Glass Dragon: China’s Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful Defense
Kaspersky Labs’ Threat Post reports that China’s online defences have failed to keep pace with its widely hyped offensive capabilities: For the last 18 months, Dillon Beresford, a security researcher with testing...
Protecting Your Security Online: A Guide
AccessNow.org has posted a new guide to online security which may be of use to CDT readers based in China—or, indeed, anywhere else. This guide is written for citizens in the Middle East and North Africa who want to use...
Spying on Computer Spies Traces Data Theft to China
A team of researchers in Toronto has traced a computer spy network that has hacked into government computers in India and elsewhere. From the New York Times: The Toronto spy hunters not only learned what kinds of material had...
Marc Ambinder: How The Hackers Took Google: A Theory
From the Atlantic Magazine: Fred Chang has a theory about how hackers affiliated with the Chinese government hacked into Google and at least two dozen other major American companies. Chang is a professor of computer science at...
Microsoft: China Web Filtering Raises Issues
After a government order announced that all new computers in China would be required to have pre-installed filtering software, Microsoft is denouncing the notice. From AFP: Microsoft late Monday said a Chinese rule that personal...
Original Government Document Ordering “Green Dam” Software Installation
On her blog, Rebecca MacKinnon summarizes the key stipulations of the government order requiring computer manufacturers to install filtering software on all computers made in or imported into China: 1. Domestic PC manufacturers...
US, China behind Two-thirds of Computer Security Threats – AFP
From AFP, via China Daily: The United States and China host nearly two-thirds of spam, viruses and other computer security threats delivered around the world in 2006. Computer security firm Sophos said 34.2 percent of the so-called malware last year originated from the United States, with 31 percent from China. Russia was third, accounting for […]
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