Posted on 12/14/2007 3:06:44 AM PST by Flavius
Congress passed legislation this week requiring the Pentagon to report on China's growing computer-warfare capabilities when producing assessments of Chinese military power.
The fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday by the House, contains a provision requiring the annual Military Power of the People's Republic of China report to include a new section on Beijing's "efforts to acquire, develop and deploy cyberwarfare capabilities" in its assessments of China's "asymmetric" warfare capabilities
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Iomega to buy China-gov't owned storage maker InfoWorld
The Virginian-Pilot 'Buy American!’ We tried. The Virginian-Pilot, VA - 8 hours ago Hudson recommended a product by Hewlett-Packard because it’sa US company, he said, though he didn’t know where it builds its computers.
INTERNET LAW - New Internet Study Reveals Large Chinese Fraud Web IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription), CA - Dec 12, 2007 The thieves exploit these holes by either cracking into computers via software flaws, or they send Trojans out, hacker-testing sites they have been alerted ...
Vanoc needs computer supplier after Chinese sponsor bows out Vancouver Sun, Canada - Dec 5, 2007 by JEFF LEE, Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Olympic organizers say they expect to have to begin buying millions of dollars in computers next year ...
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yay awesome stuff
In case anyone doesn't know it, Bill Gertz has his own website called The Gertz File. I reccommend it highly.
http://gertzfile.com/gertzfile/
He also has a ~new book out, entitled, Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets--and How We Let It Happen
Some highlights from the book off The Gertz File website:
How FBI informant Katrina Leung and her FBI handler J.J. Smith helped China obtain vital secrets on U.S. electronic eavesdropping.
New details on the technical intellignece-gathering spy ring of Tai Mak and Chi Mak, two brothers arrested for supplying China with vital defense technology.
How information compromised to China allows Beijing to track U.S. Virginia-class submarines.
How the CIA was informed in 1999 that at least three of its clandestine service officers were on the payroll of Chinese intelligence, but the agency failed to find the spies.
How China has established a special, ultra-secret intelligence unit tasked with planting spies inside the U.S. government.
How China ran a high-level penetration agent inside the U.S. government code-named "Mother."
How the FBI mistakenly hounded CIA counterintelligence officer Brian Kelley and his family for nearly two years, while the real target of the mole hunt, FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, operated freely and passed secrets to Moscow.
How Russia has dispatched scores of intelligence operatives to the United States, rivaling Cold War levels of spying.
How weak counterintelligence has allowed terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. military gain access to U.S. secrets.
How North Korea conducted intelligence-related abductions of Japanese nationals.
How Cuba penetrated the Defense Intelligence Agency and other agencies with high-level mole Ana Montes, who spied to help Nicaragua's Sandinistas and then became Cuba's most important agent.
How British military intelligence penetrated the terrorist Irish Republican Army with an agent code-named Stakeknife.
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