Behind China's Great Firewall - News and Analysis by PC Magazine. In light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, more scrutiny is being placed on China's Web-filtering practices. PC Magazine takes a closer look. For more than a decade, the Chinese government has been developing a system to filter Internet traffic (called the "Great Firewall"). According to the agency that monitors Internet traffic, the Ministry of Information Industry, these measures are put in place to protect children and other Internet users from illegal and offensive content. A statement posted on the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre (CIIRC) says that the "CIIRC has received more than 30,000 letters from the public since the establishment, most of which come from parents and teachers.
Those letters highly appraise the achievement of CIIRC. " With the Beijing Olympic Games set to kick off August 8, China's Internet policies are being placed under new and more intense scrutiny. Never-Seen: Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Photo Gallery - LIFE. Spacecraft stats and insights. By Claude LafleurMonday, April 5, 2010 Piloted spaceships, planetary probes, and space telescopes fascinate people. That’s easy to understand since these spacecraft make the discoveries of our time. Nevertheless, this is only the proverbial “tip of the iceberg” since they account for less than 10% of all spacecraft ever launched. What are the other 90% for? Who launched them and for what purpose? Answering these questions tells us a lot about what’s going on in space.
Here is an overview of space activities from the standpoint of spacecraft launched. Who launches what? First of all, how many spacecraft have been launched since Sputnik in 1957? Separately, I counted as two spacecraft a Space Shuttle orbiter that delivers a payload into orbit. So, I’ve developed a logic to count the number of spacecraft, but whatever logic you could design, there’ll always be some exceptions.
Now the answer: as of December 31, 2009, there were 6,854 spacecraft launched. Come fly with… whom? The Chinese myth. Research Blog - Research - SecureWorks. With the recently disclosed hacking incident inside Google and other major companies, much of the world has begun to wake up to what the infosec community has known for some time ? There is a persistent campaign of “espionage-by-malware” emanating from the People? S Republic of China (PRC). Corporate and state secrets both have been shanghaied over a period of five or more years, and the activity becomes bolder over time with little public acknowledgement or response from the U.S. government.
“Operation Aurora” is the latest in a series of attacks originating out of Mainland China. Although the code behind Operation Aurora has only recently been discovered, and the known samples of the main backdoor trojan (called Hydraq by antivirus companies) appear to be no older than 2009. The compiler often offers other clues to a malware sample? There is one interesting clue in the Hydraq binary that points back to mainland China, however. A new approach to China. Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.
First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities. Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.