Jun 09
Times EnemyChina, General, news, security China, news, privacy
China Stands Behind Its Net Censorship
By: Geoff Duncan
June 8, 2010
A new white paper from the Chinese government defends the country’s rights to prohibit information that the government believes serves to subvert state power.
China is well-known to run the most sophisticated Internet censorship regime on the planet—dubbed The Great Firewall of China—that has been decried by many both within China and in the larger international community. Now the Chinese government has issued a new white paper defending the nation’s right to censor the Internet and prohibit the distribution of any information it believes to be harmful or a threat to the state’s power.
May 21
Times EnemyChina, General, news, security China, India, information warfare, insecure news, news
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/98208/World/Chinese+hackers+target+India’s+data+on+Naxals.html
Chinese hackers target India’s data on Naxals
Shuja-ul Haq
New Delhi, May 21, 2010
A joint investigation report by University of Toronto and Indian government has exposed China’s brazen hacking of New Delhi’s military secrets. Headlines Today has secured documents showing how the hackers stole secret information regarding security assessment on Maoists.
The documents were the outcome of a joint probe by cyber investigators from the University of Toronto and the Indian government. The report details how Chinese hackers accessed secret information from the computer of a member of the National Security Council secretariat.
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Mar 13
Times EnemyChina, news China, Google, news, search engines
Google to shut China search engine
By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing
Published: March 12 2010 20:11
Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.
In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese government also on Friday threw down a direct public challenge to the US search company, with a warning that it was not prepared to compromise on internet censorship to stop Google leaving.
Mar 13
Times EnemyChina, news China, economics, news
China to bid on US high-speed rail projects
By JOE McDONALD (AP)
BEIJING — China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday.
China has built 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) of high-speed rail for its own train system and President Barack Obama issued a pledge in November with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, to cooperate in developing the technology.
“We are organizing relevant companies to participate in bidding for U.S. high-speed railways,” Wang Zhiguo, a deputy railways minister, told a news conference.
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Mar 13
Times EnemyChina, news China, news, politics
China lobs charges back at United States
By Aileen McCabe, Canwest News ServiceMarch 13, 2010 3:08 AM
Not one to turn the other cheek these days, China issued a report Friday on human rights violations by the U.S.
A day after the State Department pointed the finger at China in its annual report on human rights abuses in 194 countries, Beijing responded in kind, accusing Washington of “posing as the world judge of human rights again.”
The Chinese said the U.S. continues to “turn a blind eye to, or dodge and even cover up rampant human rights abuses on its own territory.”
Mar 08
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, information warfare, insecure news, news
Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West’s intelligence secrets
March 8, 2010
Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout NATO and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.
The attacks have also hit government and military institutions in the United States, where analysts said that the West had no effective response and that EU systems were especially vulnerable because most cyber security efforts were left to member states.
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Mar 06
Times EnemyChina, news China, news, search engines
Microsoft Will Continue Chinese Strategy In Search, Cloud
By: Nicholas Kolakowski
2010-03-06
Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly throughout 2010 that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some controversy between the Chinese government and Google earlier in the year that saw the search-engine giant briefly threatening to pull its operations from the country. Both Microsoft and Google lag behind homegrown Chinese search engine Baidu in that market, considered one of the world’s fastest-growing. Both Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have reaffirmed their commitment to human rights within the context of doing business in China.
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Mar 05
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, economics, insecure news, news, politics, Taiwan, Tibet
China rhetoric raises threat concerns
By Bill Gertz
Friday, March 5, 2010
Recent statements by Chinese military officials are raising concerns among U.S. analysts that the communist government in Beijing is shifting its oft-stated “peaceful rise” policy toward an aggressive, anti-U.S. posture.
The most recent sign appeared with the publication of a government-approved book by Senior Col. Liu Mingfu that urges China to “sprint” toward becoming the world’s most powerful state.
Mar 05
Times EnemyChina, news China, economics, news
China May Have to Accept Higher Iron Ore Prices, Angang Says
March 05, 2010, 7:07 AM EST
March 5 (Bloomberg) — Steelmakers in China, the world’s biggest buyer of iron ore, may have to accept a price increase higher than the 20 percent they expected for this year, Angang Steel Co. said.
“The price talks aren’t optimistic,” Chairman Zhang Xiaogang said in Beijing today while attending the National People’s Congress. Angang Steel is China’s biggest Hong Kong- listed steelmaker.
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Mar 05
Times EnemyChina, news China, news
China Premier Details Economic Plan
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: March 5, 2010
BEIJING — Prime Minister Wen Jiabao crafted a portrait of a China on a steady course toward greatness on Friday, telling his nation’s unelected legislature that the government could expand social spending, increase lending, pour money into strategic industries and still meet its traditional 8 percent economic growth target in 2010.
But he also sounded a cautionary note, warning that the nation faced structural economic and social problems, and that China still confronts “a very complex situation” in the wake of last year’s global financial collapse.
Mar 05
Times EnemyChina, news China, insecure news, news, search engines, Tibet
Even if Google Uncensors Its Chinese Search, Microsoft has no Plans to Follow
Talks between Google and the Chinese government quietly continue
Censorship is the name of the game in China’s media market. If you aren’t willing to filter out content the government finds unacceptable, you aren’t allowed to do business with the nation’s over 1 billion people. For most companies, that’s too tempting a target to miss. Blind compliance has been a typical precedent in the past.
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Mar 01
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, the atlantic
When will China emerge as a military threat to the U.S.? In most respects the answer is: not anytime soon—China doesn’t even contemplate a time it might challenge America directly. But one significant threat already exists: cyberwar. Attacks—not just from China but from Russia and elsewhere—on America’s electronic networks cost millions of dollars and could in the extreme cause the collapse of financial life, the halt of most manufacturing systems, and the evaporation of all the data and knowledge stored on the Internet.
Cyber Warriors
by James Fallows
Feb 27
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news, politics
Mike McConnell on how to win the cyber-war we’re losing
By Mike McConnell
Sunday, February 28, 2010
The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing. It’s that simple. As the most wired nation on Earth, we offer the most targets of significance, yet our cyber-defenses are woefully lacking.
The problem is not one of resources; even in our current fiscal straits, we can afford to upgrade our defenses. The problem is that we lack a cohesive strategy to meet this challenge.
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Feb 26
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
China Attacks on Google May Have Hit 100 Companies, ISEC Says
February 26, 2010, 10:04 PM EST
By Brian Womack and Katrina Nicholas
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — The Chinese cyber attacks that Google Inc. reported last month may have targeted more than 100 companies, a larger number than previously thought, according to security research firm ISEC Partners Inc.
ISEC said it discovered the additional targets while working with victims of the attack, which originated in China. Google initially alerted 30 companies to the problem, San Francisco-based ISEC said.
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Feb 26
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, news
China passes National Defense Mobilization Law to safeguard security
English.news.cn 2010-02-26 15:24:08
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — China’s top legislature passed the National Defense Mobilization Law on Friday after three readings, setting down rules on how and when the military should be mobilized in times of war or emergency.
The Law was approved at the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee’s three-day bimonthly session which ended Friday. President Hu Jintao signed a decree to publish the Law, which will take effect on July 1.
The 72-provision law sets out principles and organizational mechanisms for national defense mobilization, personnel and strategic material storage, and the prevention and relief of war-related disasters.
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Feb 26
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
I suppose it is only fair to post some opinions from the “other” side as well…
Commentary: China cyber attacks against Google pure fabrication
English.news.cn 2010-02-24 00:23:06
BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and some other newspapers have published articles indicating that cyber attacks targeting Google and several other U.S. companies were from China. Such allegations are arbitrary and biased.
These articles take as evidence that hackers’ IP addresses could be traced back to two schools in China. However, it is common sense that hackers can attack by hijacking computers from anywhere in the world. This fact also explains why hackers are hard to be tracked down.
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Feb 24
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
Another China vs USA which does not bode well for my team…
We Would Lose Cyberwar says former DNI Mike McConnell
This was written by Michael Cheek on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:33.
Cyberwar is increasingly entering into the mindset of policy makers. Earlier this month, DNI Dennis Blair outlined the cyber threat in his Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, saying that “The United States confronts a dangerous combination of known and unknown vulnerabilities, strong and rapidly expanding adversary capabilities, and a lack of comprehensive threat awareness.”
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Feb 24
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
China denies cyber attacks on Google originated in two of country’s schools
By Aileen McCabe, Canwest News Service
February 24, 2010 7:54 AM
The Chinese government came out swinging Tuesday against allegations the cyber attacks that led Google to threaten to pull out of the world’s most populous nation originated in one of China’s top universities and at a little-known vocational school with suspected links to the military.
“Reports that these [attacks] came from Chinese schools are groundless, and accusations of Chinese government involvement are irresponsible and out of ulterior motives,” a Foreign Affairs spokesman told reporters.
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Feb 24
Times EnemyChina, news al jazeera, China, news
China new web rules condemned
New regulations on internet use in China have been condemned by a media rights watchdog as an effort to tighten political control and a “disturbing step backwards” for online freedoms.
Under the new regulations announced on Tuesday that potential individual operators must submit their identity cards and photos of themselves.
The applicants are also required to personally meet regulators and representatives of service providers before being registered.
The country’s ministry of industry and information technology said the news rule was aimed at cracking down on pornography.
Feb 15
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news
China leads the world in hacked computers, McAfee study says
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 15, 2010
More private computers were commandeered by hackers for malicious purposes in China in the last quarter of 2009 than in any other country, including the United States, according to a new study by an Internet security company.
These “zombie” computers are often grouped into “botnets,” or armies of infected computers that can be used to send spam e-mail or attack Web sites, according to McAfee, a Silicon Valley security firm. The company, which said it collects information about Internet-based threats that target more than 100 million computers in 120 countries, said that in the last three months of 2009, about 1,095,000 computers in China and 1,057,000 in the United States were infected.
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Feb 13
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news
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.
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Feb 13
JavierChina, rants and raves China, imposters, posers, rants
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.
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Feb 13
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news
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.
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Feb 12
Times EnemyChina China, politics
Some articles were putting Obama and the Dalai Lama on a similar level, this is just nonsense. Here are a few articles about this latest Chinese issue.
Obama’s plans to meet Dalai Lama
Saibal Dasgupta, TNN, 12 February 2010, 07:29pm IST
BEIJING: China on Friday reiterated its warning to the US president Barack Obama that meeting the Dalai Lama would cause serious damage to Sino-US relationship. The Chinese foreign ministry issued the renewed warning after the White House in Washington announced a firm date for the meeting between the Tibetan leader and Obama.
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Feb 11
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, politics
China Risks Backlash With Iran Sanction Refusal
Thursday, February 11, 2010
BEIJING — China’s refusal to sign on to new sanctions against Iran risks prompting a backlash affecting its increasingly complex interests abroad, experts say.
Recent remarks by President Barack Obama citing China’s opposition, and unusually tough talk from Russia — long a sanctions skeptic — has spotlighted Beijing’s refusal to back such steps as a way of pressuring Iran over its nuclear program.
Nikolai Patrushev, the chief of Russia’s Security Council, said Tuesday that Iran’s recent actions “have raised doubts among other nations, and these doubts are quite well-founded.” His comments appeared to indicate that Russia is increasingly warming up to the U.S. sanctions push.
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