Beijing behind Internet security violation
China's cyberspace administration is "complicit" in attacks on major Internet companies including Google, an anti-censorship group said on Wednesday, calling on firms worldwide to step up their defences.
GreatFire.org, which operates websites seeking to circumvent China's vast censorship apparatus, pointed to statements by Google, Microsoft and Mozilla as showing the Chinese government was involved in so-called "man-in-the-middle" operations.
Such attacks involve an unauthorised intermediary inserting themselves between computer users and their online destinations, usually undetected, putting them in a position to harvest data traffic, including passwords. GreatFire.org said the firms' statements amounted to "concrete evidence" the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) authority and the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) administrator were "behind these malicious actions and are endangering safety and security on the Internet for everyone".
