China Cyber Warfare Log

• China’s Iran-Oil Import Angst February 20, 2012
  Thus far, Beijing has found little wiggle room to resist the U.S.-E.U.-Saudi common vision that severe sanctions be used to shut down the bulk of Iran’s oil exports by June. The reality being revealed in this confrontation is that China has much less ability to maneuver independently in the global oil system—whether in the market […]
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• Iranian ships reach Syria, Assad allies show support February 20, 2012
  Russia, China and Iran showed support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, days before an international meeting likely to pile more pressure on him to step down in the face of an increasingly bloody uprising. Assad met a senior Russian politician in Damascus, who reiterated Moscow’s support for his self-styled reform programme and spoke […]
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• U.S. Not Afraid To Say It: China’s The Cyber Bad Guy : NPR February 18, 2012
  American officials have long complained about countries that systematically hack into U.S. computer networks to steal valuable data, but until recently they did not name names. In the last few months, that has changed. China is now officially one of the cyber bad guys and probably the worst. “We know, and there’s good evidence … […]
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• Joint Chiefs Chair: Chinese Hackers ‘Not Necessarily Hostile February 18, 2012
  This headline from CNN – “Joint Chiefs Chair: Chinese Hacking Not Necessarily a Hostile Act” – reads like it came from the Onion. But don’t jump into your bunker yet – the reasoning behind this apparently blissfully naive statement by General Martin Dempsey is at least slightly plausible: Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the […]
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• China’s Hacking Of U.S. Remains A Top Concern : NPR February 18, 2012
  U.S officials have long complained about countries that systematically hack into U.S. computer networks to steal valuable data, but until recently they did not name names. In the last few months, that has changed. China is now officially one of the cyber bad guys and probably the worst. “We know and there’s good evidence … […]
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• China Cyber Attack Threat February 17, 2012
  It is clear that cyber warfare will be part of any future conflict and we must become prepared for that type of combat here on the homeland front. Two recent NPR stories highlighted the continuing potential for cyber attacks.  One focused on the threat that China poses and the other story on what we should […]
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• Are Chinese Telecoms acting as the ears for the Sri Lankan government? February 17, 2012
  The title is inspired by the article Are Chinese Telecoms Acting as the Ears for Central Asian Authoritarians? published in Eurasianet.org, examining the probable role of Chinese telecoms firms, notably Huawei and ZTE, in espionage and surveillance. The article notes that both ZTE and Huawei have signed contracts worth tens of millions of US dollars with gov […]
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• Hacked: How China is stealing Americas business secrets February 17, 2012
  Sen. John Kerry is fed up with Chinas penchant for looting technology from U.S. businesses — up to $400 billion worth of data each year. When will it stop?POSTED ON FEBRUARY 16, 2012, AT 3:52 PMChinese gamers at an internet cafe: Sen. John Kerry D-Mass. says Chinese hackers are illegally stealing business secrets from American […]
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• Cyber-Spies Intercepted Sensitive Files, Emails From Nortel: Report – Security – News & Reviews – eWeek.com February 15, 2012
  Attackers breached Nortel and had free rein to spy on its internal network and communications from 2000 to 2009, according to an internal report. As usual, China is the prime suspect. Chinese hackers allegedly breached telecommunications company Nortel in 2000 and these cyber-spies gained access to reams of sensitive technical documents, as well as internal […]
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• McConnell, Chertoff and Lynn: Chinas Cyber Thievery Is National Policy—And Must Be Challenged – WSJ.com February 1, 2012
  By MIKE MCCONNELL, MICHAEL CHERTOFF AND WILLIAM LYNNOnly three months ago, we would have violated U.S. secrecy laws by sharing what we write here—even though, as a former director of national intelligence, secretary of homeland security, and deputy secretary of defense, we have long known it to be true. The Chinese government has a national […]
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