Hacking

In an investigation published by French newspaper Le Monde, China, which also paid and built the computer network at the AU, allegedly inserted a backdoor that allowed it to transfer data.

The charges being brought in Pittsburgh allege that the hackers stole intellectual property from several companies, including Trimble, a maker of navigation systems; Siemens, a German technology company with major operations in the US; and Moody’s...

China analysts say Beijing will hesitate before directly casting blame on North Korea even if evidence directly ties the North to the attack. Beijing is more likely to single out other actors, particularly the United States, experts say.

China expressed concern on Thursday over revelations in a trove of data released by Wikileaks purporting to show that the CIA can hack all manner of devices, including those made by Chinese companies.

Indictment says the traders bought shares of at least five publicly traded companies before announcements that the firms would be acquired

Cyber security group says attack launched against visitors to vessel in South China Sea

The report was released amid growing concern about the vulnerability of the international banking system.

U.S. network security companies notice a 90 percent decrease in Chinese hackers, as promised by the Chinese government....

First codenamed "Dancing Panda" by U.S. officials was detected in April 2010, according to a top secret NSA briefing from 2014.

A story about the newly updated e-book Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang”

The Democratic presidential candidate accused Chinese hackers of stealing “huge amounts of government information.”

New language in the rules calls for a “national security review” of the technology industry — including network and other products and services — and foreign investment.

Deep Panda is one of several hacking groups that cybersecurity companies accuse of hacking U.S. networks.

Chinese intruders' attack gave them “administrator privileges” into Office of Personnel Management computer networks.

Retired Gen. Michael Hayden calls records a ‘legitimate foreign intelligence target’.

The attackers compromised websites frequented by Chinese journalists as well as China’s Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.

Hacks possibly compromised the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees.

China concerned about New Zealand and U.S. intelligence plan to hack Chinese government buildings in Auckland.

IBM is running into Obama pressure to persuade Beijing to drop new measures that require American companies to hand over technology in exchange for market access.

To ensure its survival, the Chinese Communist Party has decided that it must control the Internet. 

“There’s no smoking gun...,but all signs point to China” Bryce Boland told TechCrunch.

Obama used existing authority to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, but the new order will expand his options.

Hijacking the computers of millions of innocent Internet users around the world shows China's disregard for Internet governance norms.

In recent attacks on sites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used as a weapon.

GreatFire.org’s “mirrored” websites and the Internet bandwidth-sharing service Lantern have allowed users to access the open Internet.

The attack appears to underscore how China’s Internet censors increasingly reach outside the country.

An updated military document for the first time admits that the Chinese government sponsors offensive cyber units.

GreatFire.org has been under an unprecedented denial-of-service attack, receiving more than 2 billion requests per hour.

The move not a huge surprise as Yahoo has been retreating since 2013 when it ended email servies in China. 

Lobby wants China to stop rules that would force tech vendors to Chinese banks to hand over source code. 

Firewall-hopping technologies see activist programmers and Chinese censors engaged in a cat-and-mouse game. 

The two biggest economies are trying to ease tension over trade, human rights, and accusations of hacking and Internet theft.

“The Five” co-host’s discriminatory remarks have caused a storm of controversy and anger in China, echoing calls in the U.S. for him to be fired.

After years of cyberattacks on the networks of high-profile government targets like the Pentagon, Chinese hackers appear to have turned their attention to far more obscure federal agencies.

Asia Society Senior Fellow Jamie Metzl discusses cyber spying and U.S., China relations and the re-militarization of Japan on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials.

Using Chinese government websites, academic databases and foreign security expertise, The Wall Street Journal assembled an overview of some secret operations of China's global monitoring organization, the Third Department of the People's...

The Chinese government, angered by Washington's charge that Beijing engages in cyberspying, is looking for some payback.

China will establish new procedures to assess potential security problems with Internet technology and services used by sectors “related to national security and the public interest.”

Prosecutors building a case against Wang Dong, one of five Chinese military hackers indicted for economic espionage, were helped by Wang’s apparent willingness to break a cardinal rule of spying: Leave no tracks.

New documents show that the U.S. National Security Agency penetrated the large Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, gathering information about its operations.

Microsoft denied it was omitting websites from its Bing search engine results for users outside China after a Chinese rights group said the U.S. firm was censoring material the government deems politically sensitive.

In trying to block Chinese traffic going to Sophidea, the Great Firewall's operators accidentally diverted more traffic there.

The state-run China Internet Network Information Center blamed the blockage on a “malfunction in root servers.”

Defense Secretary Hagel called a new U.S.-China cyberaffairs working group a ‘venue for addressing issues of mutual concern.’ His Chinese counterpart, General Chang Wanquan, denied there was a problem. 

Media in China see further embarrassment for the United States after whistleblower Edward Snowden gets temporary asylum in Russia.

Whether it is used to break into private networks, track online dissent back to its source or steal trade secrets, hacking is openly discussed and even promoted at trade shows, inside university classrooms and on Internet forums. 

A recent survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China , found 26 percent of respondants (all U.S. businesses) reported somebody stealing business data from their computers, and 42 percent said the problem is getting worse. 

The only change, Mandiant’s Chief Security Officer said, has been a noticeable drop in cyber attacks from Unit 61398, a group within the People’s Liberation Army that Mandiant accused in February 2013.  

Current and former officials said the offensive shift turned on two developments: new intelligence showing the Chinese military directing cyberspying campaigns, and a sudden change in U.S. companies’ willingness to acknowledge Chinese...

An interview with prominent Chinese-American legal scholar about the recent hacking issue and Chinese-Americans role in offsetting potential negative misconceptions about the community.

A P.L.A. hacker’s blog is discovered, providing a rare peek into the secretive hacking establishment of the Chinese military, in what is believed to be by far the world’s largest institutionalized hacking operation. 

Chinese hackers believe the most pervasive of of all Washington legends: that everything that happens in D.C. fits into somebody’s plan. Because in China, it would be like that. Not in our nation’s capital.