Hackers Hit U.S. Firms Linked to South China Sea
A new report released by cybersecurity firm FireEye on Friday revealed that U.S. engineering and...
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Internet Security Platform Closed; Founder Arrested
As Chinese authorities frequently point out in response to foreign accusations that it sponsors...
Hacker Arrests Lift Views of U.S.-China Agreement
After years of mounting tensions over hacking, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the...
U.S., China Pledge Cyber “Code of Conduct”
The Wall Street Journal’s Felicia Schwartz reports some signs of cooperation between China...
“The Art of Dissent”: Ai Weiwei Meets Jacob Applebaum
Filmmaker Laura Poitras—who is best known for receiving classified documents from and then...
Sensitive: Anti-Communists Hack Wenzhou TV
As of August 1, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Chinese Cyber Espionage: What To Do?
In the wake of both revelations that the U.S. government has accused five People’s...
China’s Next Hack: Hollywood?
San Jose cybersecurity company FireEye says that “they’ve spotted warning signs that...
Is “Snowden Effect” Hurting U.S. Firms in China?
For Reuters, Matthew Miller reports that some U.S. technology firms may face headwinds in China as...
Hacker Group in China Linked to Cyber Attacks [Updated]
U.S. computer security software company Symantec says a Chinese group of hackers named...
Hackers Find China is Land of Opportunity
After recent high-profile hacking campaigns against American newspapers and government organizations, and a subsequent report suggesting that groups responsible for some attacks were linked to the People’s Liberation Army,...
China’s Internet: A Giant Cage
This week’s edition of The Economist features an epic special report by Gady Epstein on social, political, commercial, technical and international aspects of China’s Internet. From his introduction: THIRTEEN YEARS...
Former U.S. Defense Chief: Time for Quiet Diplomacy on Cyberattacks
As accusations of hacking take an increasingly prominent role in Sino-U.S. relations, former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen argues that a quieter approach will yield better results than “megaphone diplomacy”....
South Korea Cyberattack Not Launched via Chinese IP Address (Updated)
Update: The Korean Communications Commission has announced that its original attribution was a mistake, and that the IP address involved in the attack actually belongs to one of the targeted companies. The attack is still...
Wall Street Journal Accused of Bribery in China
The Wall Street Journal has revealed allegations that its staff bribed Chinese officials to obtain information related to Bo Xilai’s former fiefdom of Chongqing. Officials at the newspaper’s parent company News Corp....
Hacker’s Angst Opens Window on Cyber-espionage
Following the Mandiant report that exposed a major hacking group linked to the People’s Liberation Army, the Los Angeles Times has now tracked down the personal blog of one of the alleged hackers. In the blog, which was...
Hackers Embed Virus in Mandiant Report
ZDNet’s Eileen Yu reported on Monday that hackers have distributed virus-infected versions of a report released last week by security firm Mandiant which linked the Chinese army to cyberattacks on U.S. corporations: When...
Report Claims Hacker Group Linked To People’s Liberation Army
In the recent string of hacking attacks against American newspapers, government departments and other organizations, the difficulty of definitively attributing such actions has been a recurring theme. Chinese authorities have...
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