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Don't get on the wrong side of China

By stiennon on Fri, 03/21/08 - 5:55pm.

Or, if you do, make sure your Internet security is up to date.  According to the Washington Post the FBI has begun an investigation into attacks on the email and web server of the save Darfur organization .  If you visit their site you will see that they are not exactly friendly towards China, blaming that country for much of the inaction regarding the genocide in Darfur. 

I see that China has also blocked access to YouTube because of the airing of deplorable actions on the part of the Chinese in Tibet in putting down protests of Tibeten monks. You might want to take a moment to view this image before commiting your organization to sponsoring or in any way supporting the 2008 Olympics.

Consider the security of your own mail in the light of potential attacks from a hostile nation state. Are you ready?  

Cyber Warfare Intelligence

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By Spy Guy (not verified) on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:05pm.

For about a year now the former Chief Strategist of Netscape has been warning everyone through his articles that this was a huge threat and actually identified several strategies and tactics that if used would compromise the information infrastructure in the U.S. and globally. Why is it our intelligence services are just waking up to this threat? Why is it throughout history we ignore or dismiss the experts until it is too late! I just did a Google search (Kevin Coleman Cyber Attack) and found over 13,000 references. With that much intelligence we should be much further along in protecting and defending against cyber attacks that we are today!

Cyber attacks from China?

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By kevin-j on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 9:26pm.

Cyber attacks from China? Old news. I don't know why the international community isn't using the Olympics to put pressure on China regarding Tibet or cyber threats.

A threat of a boycott would do wonders for China's behavior.

Kevin

http://www.virtela.com

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Richard Stiennon is a security industry analyst. He is currently consulting, speaking and writing on all manner of security topics for IT-Harvest, the IT research firm he founded to cover the security space. He was most recently chief marketing officer for Fortinet. He has served stints at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Gartner, and Webroot Software.