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Don’t get on the wrong side of China

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Mar 21, 20081 min

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?  

Richard Stiennon is chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 1,600 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and There Will Be Cyberwar: How the Move to Network-Centric Warfighting Set the Stage for Cyberwar. He is a member of the advisory board at the Information Governance Initiative and principal of TrueBit Cyber Partners. He also serves on the R2-TAC, the technical advisory committee for the Responsible Recycling standard for e-waste.

Stiennon was chief marketing officer for Fortinet Inc. and vice president of threat research at Webroot Software. Prior to that, he was vice president of research at Gartner Inc. He has a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.A. in war in the modern world from King’s College, London.

The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Richard Stiennon and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications Inc. or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.

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