… the culprit in allowing the cyber attacks was actually unpatched security holes in at least two major versions of Internet Explorer.
Google made a surprise announcement that it may withdraw from China following a series of cyber attacks on its users and infrastructure. Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote that the attacks were aimed at identifying advocates for human rights in China. Even after four years of operations Google is unlikely to win the search giant [...]
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All new computers sold in China after July 1 must contain new software that filters out a list of Web sites banned by the government. Listen to this recorded NPR Broadcast interview from All Things Considered with Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Law at Harvard, cofounder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and investigator [...]
Yesterday, Chinese Authorities blocked internet access to all social networking sites including Twitter, Flickr,Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites such as WordPress, YouTube, Blogger This seems to be a means of quieting dissent (which has been intensified with access to the internet)near the June 4th 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. The Chinese are [...]
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