The US government thinks that China’s predisposition for industrial espionage is their biggest threat.
BBC News:
China is pursuing new technology “aggressively”, it says, legitimately through research and business deals and illegally through industrial espionage.
China has also “embraced destructive warfare techniques”, the report says, enabling it to carry out cyber attacks on other countries’ infrastructure.
A foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing denied any spying activities by China.
“China and the US have a fundamental common interest in promoting sound and rapid development,” said Liu Jianchao, quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
As much as the Chinese government wants to deny it I would have to call bullsh!t on them. I have spoken with 12 security wonks at large commercial enterprises over the last two weeks and they have noticed a rise in probes from China. Namely they have noticed a marked rise in the number or SQL Injection probes.
Now, when I worked for the US DoD we went as far as to create ACLs to deep six the entire Chinese IP address space. I haven’t looked at that type of measure for a long time. I’m starting to wonder if this is a step that we should review? Seems a touch extreme but, it may be time.
[tags]Chinese Hackers, China Spying, China Security Probes[/tags]
