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Cyber Attacks are a Two-way Street (Continued)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Chanelle Perrin

Although American publications have mentioned the perspectives of the Chinese in their media outlets, the backlash of the Mandiant report and the opinions of the Chinese government is covered more in Chinese publications. The China Daily states that the Chinese government is the victims of cyber espionage; claiming the United States’ allegations show a lack of trust for the Chinese and shows America’s anxiety over national security. Their latest update on the cyber hacking scandal is that US and Chinese officials are trying to make a valid effort to gain trust in each other through open forums most recently held in Beijing. The forums is a combined effort for the U.S. and China to try to solve an international issue.
The Global Times also refutes claims that China is responsible for the cyber hacking, stating the Mandiant report used to make other nations weary of involvement with China. Global times went as far as to state that their systems were attacked 7 Million times.Furthermore, they quoted The People’s Daily, a publication funded by the chinese military, stating that the allegations ‘did not reflect the facts ‘ and were ‘unprofessional’.
The China Buzz is a blog site that stems from the Economic Observer and they too have taken the same view point as the Global Times and China Daily, stating that America is using these allegations to further advance their own cyber espionage. ZDNet.com is a technology based blog that seems to be slightly more neutral than the prior publications. ZDNet states China has teamed up with other nations as a means to better secure themselves from attacks. In addition to teaming up with other countries they would like the negative allegations to stop because they are the victims of cyber attacks and Chinese officials believe the allegations will cause tension between China and other countries. ZDNet states that the U.S. is not entirely innocent and is in 2nd place behind China for cyber espionage in the world, accounting for almost 41% of global cyber attacks.
Sources
Chinadaily.com (http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2013-04/10/content_16389412.htm)
GlobalTimes.cn (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/774556.shtml#.UX_8enCmxUQ)
China Buzz (http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/2013/0319/241394.shtml)
ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/china-accounts-for-41-percent-of-global-computer-attack-traffic-7000014392/)

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Cyber Attacks Are A Two-way Street continued….

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Chanelle Perrin

Cyber hacking between the US and China has been in the news for several weeks; partly due to a 60 page report releases by the Mandiant cyber security company concerning cyber attacks originating from a Chinese military owned building. NBCNews.com chose to focus on the inevitable rise in Mandiant Stock due to their very detailed work., and recommendations from the New York times and Wall Street Journal. Although, hackers tried to undermine the company’s credibility by emailing a tampered version of the report, Mandiant has become a highly demanded cyber security company.

The New York Times has stuck to the perspective that China is solely responsible for the attacks on the US. Dutch Ruppersberger a democratic representative from Maryland stated that US companies lost almost $300 billion in 2012 due to trade secrets stolen from Chinese hacking. The times scarcely gives the Chinese a voice in the article, stating that the US is also responsible for hacking but has yet to provide substantial evidence of cyber espionage.

FoxNews.com reports on the series of cyber attacks between the US and China as a two way street with both nations being involved in cyber hacking. Fox actually portrays China as the victim of cyber warfare, furthermore, stating that China officials are actually ready to have a discussion with US personnel about cyber security. It appears that Fox would like to have an unbiased view on a situation regarding two powerful nations.

Npr.com does not take sides in the argument of who is responsible for the attacks, alternatively they have focused on what precaution and safety measures the US plans on taking to prepare themselves for an attack. The Huffington Post’s articles comes to the defense of the US, stating that Beijing still denies any claims of cyber warfare and states numerous reasons why this threat of cyber warfare should be taken seriously by the American people. Lastly, the Wall Street Journal reports that cyber attacks from China are at an unprecedented scale. The WSJ definitely supports the US and Obama administration for trying to strengthen cyber security policies. Similar to the New York Times, the WSJ servers were attacked by Chinese hackers labeling the Chinese as the aggressors in cyber warfare.

Sources
NBCNews.Com
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/mandiant-goes-viral-after-china-hacking-report-1C8513891
NYTimes.com

FoxNews.com
http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/03/12/china-says-willing-to-discuss-cyber-security-with-us/
NPR.org
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=174099482
HuffingtonPost.com
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=174099482
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323419104578376042379430724.html?KEYWORDS=cyber+hacking

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