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WASHINGTON and TAIPEI — China continues to invest in the development of offensive cyberwarfare capabilities that could disrupt global computer networks, according to a new U.S. Defense Department report. “China is investing in not only capabilities to better defend their networks, but also, they’re looking at ways to use cyber for offensive operations,” said David Helvey, acting deputy assistant defense secretary for East Asia, during a May 18 briefing at the Pentagon. While Helvey could not say whether China is accelerating development of these offensive cyberwarfare capabilities, Beijing’s actions in this area over the past year have been sustained. “Their continued efforts in this area reflect the importance that they’re placing on developing capabilities for cyberwarfare,” he said. The report notes that in 2011, global computer networks “continued to be targets of intrusions and data theft, many of which originated within China.
China Continues its Focus on Cyber: Report
There's been an interesting new development in China's use of cyber space as an element in its intelligence and security operations. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is reportedly funding a vast complex of part-time cyber-devotees to supplement and compliment the official structure of cyber interception and invasion. Equally as interesting is the willingness of the Chinese authorities to allow the publication of this fact.
The American Spectator : China's Cyber Militia
China calls for joint efforts for peaceful, secure, equitable cyber space
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday called upon the international community to "work together towards a peaceful, secure and equitable information and cyber space," stating that cyber security "represents a major non-traditional security challenge" confronting the world at large. Wang Qun, the Chinese ambassador for disarmament affairs, made the statement when he was addressing the First Committee of the UN General Assembly on information and cyberspace security. The First Committee is in charge of disarmament and international security.
2.1 Google: “Don’t be evil;” Do make money 1 1 2.2 Y ahoo!: Going Native 12 2.3 Microsoft: MSN Spaces and the Bing-Baidu partnership 12 2.4 Skype: Breaching trust 14 2.5 Cisco: Selling Surveillance 15 2.6 Having their cake and eating it too 16
Collusion Collision
China is spying on the United States on an unprecedented scale and is engaging in ‘brazen and widespread theft’ of intellectual property from around the world, a leading US lawmaker has warned. ‘I don’t believe that there is precedent in history for such a massive and sustained intelligence effort by a government to blatantly steal commercial data and intellectual property,’ US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich) told a committee hearing on cyber security. The comments came as Russia’s spy agency, the Federal Security Service, issued a rare statement claiming that a Chinese citizen had been arrested ‘posing as a translator for official delegations.’ According to ABC News , he ‘was working under the direction of the Chinese government in an attempt to buy state secrets from Russians about Russia's S-300 missile system .’
China’s Brazen Cyber Theft? | China Power
Asia Unbound » Blog Archive » Collision in Cyberspace Is Unavoidable: The View from Chinese Analysts
A Chinese news vendor waits for customers in front of newspapers. (Claro Cortes/Courtesy Reuters) People’s Tribune Magazine (人民论坛杂志) has a collection of twelve articles on cyberspace and cyber conflict by Chinese analysts at think tanks and academic institutes.
The listening device as photographed and documented by Apple Daily, a Hong Kong newspaper. (Explanatory slide by The Epoch Times) For years now, Chinese authorities have been installing spying devices on all dual-plate Chinese-Hong Kong vehicles, enabling a vast network of eavesdropping across the archipelago, according to a Hong Kong newspaper. The report in Apple Daily states that the recording devices began being installed as “inspection and quarantine cards” in July 2007.
Chinese Spying Devices Installed on Hong Kong Cars (Video) | China | Epoch Times
WikiLeaks cables reveal fears over Chinese cyber warfare | World news | The Observer
China is building up an increasingly sophisticated cyber warfare capability by hiring companies that employ hackers, the US fears. Photograph: AP The US fears China is plotting internet warfare via private companies that are known to have recruited top hackers.
August 04, 2011, 12:16 PM — There were no big surprises in the reaction of the countries or organizations named as targets of a series of persistent, aggressive, often successful online attacks during the past five years – a campaign described in detail by a report from security vendor McAfee , which became public yesterday . Most of the victims – 49 U.S.-based corporations and a series of U.S. government agencies as well as companies and government sites in 13 other countries – were well aware of the attack, and more aware of their source than the unnamed "state actor" McAfee admitted to in the report. “All the signs point to China,” Vanity Fair quotes James A. Lewis , director and senior fellow of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies as saying.
Why is the West silent on 5-year cyberwar launched by China? | ITworld
The most striking thing about news of the latest high-level hacking campaign isn’t just that it has been going on for at least five years. It isn’t even that among the victims of the hack attack were some of the biggest world organisations (including the United Nations), some national governments (including India), and some of the biggest companies (defence contractors and high-tech enterprises). The most striking thing about it is that, from all accounts, the hack attack was carried out by Lord Voldemort , the evil antagonist of the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. What else could account for the fact that the cybersecurity expert who narrated graphic details of the cyberwar to Vanity Fair magazine said he would not speculate on which country was behind the hacking operation, named (somewhat curiously) Operation Shady RAT?
China is the Voldemort of hacking: it that must not be named! | Firstpost
Adam Segal, one of the Council on Foreign Relations' top experts on China and technology, talks to Fast Company about what's special about Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese fears of NSA backdoors, and bored East Asian teenagers. Cyberwarfare in 2011 is an odd beast. Many Western governments reportedly actively monitor rivals and engage in online sabotage, while countries ranging from Israel to Iran to India also engage in cyberwarfare programs of their own.
The Chinese Way Of Hacking | Fast Company
China Caught With Evidence of Cyberwarfare Against U.S. | TheBlaze.com
It was supposed to be just another piece of Chinese propaganda. It ended up as a major “oops,” revealing that a Chinese military university is engaged in cyberwarfare against the U.S. The Epoch Times reports that the film, screened in mid-July, included a screenshot that it calls a “damaging revelation.”BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts have discovered an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations, over a five-year period. Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed there was one "state actor" behind the attacks but declined to name it, though several other security experts said the evidence points to China . The long list of victims in the extended campaign include the governments of the United States, Taiwan, India, South Korea , Vietnam and Canada; the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the International Olympic Committee (IOC); the World Anti-Doping Agency; and an array of companies, from defense contractors to high-tech enterprises.
Biggest-ever series of cyber attacks uncovered, U.N. hit | Reuters
Hackers who appear to be based in China have conducted a "coordinated, covert and targeted" campaign of cyber espionage against major Western energy firms, according to a report expected to be issued Thursday by cybersecurity firm McAfee Inc. Law-enforcement agencies said they are investigating the incidents, which McAfee said have been going on at least since late 2009 but may have started as early as 2007. The company said the attacks, which they dubbed "Night Dragon," were still occurring. McAfee said the hackers targeted five multinational firms, but wouldn't identify the companies by name because some of them are clients. McAfee said it was sharing the findings "to protect those not yet impacted and to repair those who have been."