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China denies hacking US media outlets
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-02-05 05:46
The official newspaper of the Communist Party of China has rejected claims the country was involved in hacking U.S. news agencies The New York Times (NYT) and Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
"Even those with little understanding of the Internet know that hacking attacks are trans-national and concealable," said People's Daily on its front page, according to AFP's report Monday. It added the Internet protocol (IP) addresses were not sufficient to confirm the origin of the hackers.
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China denies US hacking
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-02-01 01:25
China has dismissed accusations that it had hacked into the system of the New York Times, in a cyber-attack the paper linked to its expose of the wealth amassed by the family of Premier Wen Jiabao.
The New York Times earlier announced it had fallen victim to hackers and said they were possibly connected to China’s military.
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GitHub unblocked in China after former Google head slams its censorship
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-01-23 11:45
Access to software collaboration site GitHub appeared to be restored in China on Wednesday, just as former Google executive Kai-Fu lee criticized its blocking as a senseless move that would harm the nation's developers.
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Rumor: Apple to open R&D and data center facilities in China
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-01-16 02:56
Sources told popular Chinese web portal Tencent (via BrightWire) on Tuesday that Apple CEO Tim Cook outlined plans for the R&D center with acting Beijing Mayor Wang Anshun on Jan. 8.
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Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-01-16 02:52
A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.
The firm's telecommunications supplier Verizon was called in after the company set up a basic VPN system with two-factor authentication so staff could work at home. The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".
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