SEO Mire

Cyberattacks from China threaten world’s businesses

Feb 13

Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news No Comments

Cyberattacks from China threaten world’s businesses
Few firms admit they are targets

By Joe McDonald • Associated Press • February 13, 2010

BEIJING — Google’s accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks.

The hacking that angered Google Inc. and hit dozens of other businesses adds to growing concern that China is a center for a global explosion of Internet crimes, part of a rash of attacks aimed at a wide array of targets, from a British military contractor to banks and chemical companies to a California software maker.

PCW/InfoWorld Loses Respect Because of Roger A Grimes

Feb 13

JavierChina, rants and raves China, imposters, posers, rants No Comments

I just read an article by Roger A. Grimes entitled, Is the Chinese Government Really Behind Cyberattacks?: Circumstantial evidence alone should not condemn Beijing of sponsoring hacking of U.S. companies.  From the subtitle I was interested in what angle this guy was going to take, so i read on … only to be sadly disappointed in identifying yet another poser.

Worries grow about America’s cyber security

Feb 13

Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news No Comments

Worries grow about America’s cyber security
Feb 13, 2010 (The Kansas City Star – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX)

– The deputy secretary of defense says “the cyber threat” is the one thing that keeps him up at night.

The director of national intelligence says such attacks pose a severe menace to the “fragile system behind the country’s information infrastructure.” The president says, “America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cyber security.” This is not some hypothetical danger, they point out, but a war that has been joined already. No less a digital dominator than Google has felt the need to enlist the National Security Agency to help it ward off Chinese hackers.