Chinese search engine Baidu can proceed with negligence claims against its domain register following a hacking attack, a US judge has ruled. The claims arose from an attack in January on Register.com by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu alleges the hackers had contacted Register claiming to be Baidu employees...
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A talk on China’s military cyber-attack capabilities has been pulled from the Black Hat security conference schedule following pressure from Taiwanese and Chinese agencies. The talk, entitled “The Chinese Cyber Army: An Archaeological Study from 2001 to 2010,” was billed as an analysis of China’s government-backed hacking initiatives, based on intelligence gathered from a...
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SHANGHAI — Google said Friday that its license to operate in China had been renewed, a surprise announcement that ended weeks of speculation over whether the Internet giant would be forced to abandon the world’s single largest market of online users. The renewal had been in doubt in recent days, as the existing license...
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Blogger Nguyen Hue Chi is locked in an electronic game of cat and mouse with a mystery cyberattacker—widely believed to be the government. Chi and his colleagues have set up a series of websites and blogs questioning government policy in the past year, only to see them attacked and blocked. Observers blame the communist...
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Google said it will stop automatically redirecting web searchers in China to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong as it hopes to convince Beijing to renew its operating license in the world’s largest Internet market. Google’s unexpected announcement comes ahead of Wednesday’s deadline when the Internet giant’s license is up for...
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According to a report in the Financial Times, Google is so fed up with Windows 7’s woeful security issues that they are now taking Redmond’s operating system by the pants seat and unceremoniously hurtling it from the building. What machines are employees getting instead? Linux rigs… and Macs. Google’s move might be related to...
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SHANGHAI – The Foreign Ministry has dismissed as “groundless” U.S. accusations that China is failing to crack down on copyright piracy, ahead of talks with top U.S. officials next week, Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday. It quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu as saying China had implemented policies to combat piracy in copyrighted...
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Just three weeks after the global launch, bootleg versions of Apple Inc’s hot-selling iPad tablet PCs have begun showing up on the shelves of online and real-world shops in piracy-prone China. Apple recently delayed the iPad’s international launch after huge demand in the United States caught the maker of trendy iPhones and MacBooks off...
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Online games, music services and parts of other Web sites in China were shut down on Wednesday for a day of mourning mandated by the government after a deadly earthquake last week. Popular online game World of Warcraft, the music download search sections offered by Google in China and by rival Baidu.com, and games...
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For the second time in two weeks, bad networking information spreading from China has disrupted the Internet. On Thursday morning, bad routing data from a small Chinese ISP called IDC China Telecommunication was re-transmitted by China’s state-owned China Telecommunications, and then spread around the Internet, affecting Internet service providers such as AT&T, Level3, Deutsche...
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Some internet pages previously blocked by the Chinese government may now be available in China following changes in the way officials censor what users can access. News stories and other pages that deal with sensitive subjects are among parts of the web that may now be accessible – as long as they do not...
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A group of researchers has linked a huge, China-based cyber espionage ring to the theft of thousands of documents — including classified information, visa applications, and personal identities — from “politically sensitive targets” around the world. The command-and-control infrastructure of this so-called Shadow Network used platforms such as Twitter (Twitter), Google Groups (Google Groups),...
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The coming Shanghai World Expo (1 May – 31 October 2010) has been exploited by hackers to circulate malware. The alert message was sent by the reporter’s group in China. The report tells that the mail seems to have come from the Expo news office. However, it was not sent by the Expo. The...
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