http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NC29Ad01.html By Benjamin A Shobert Asia Times Online March 29, 2012 Monday's Congressional United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) again turned its attention to what is becoming an increasing focal point for it: China's cyber-security practices. Jason Healey, the director of the Cyber-Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, reflected both the frustration and the fear of many in America's policy community when he stated, "The threat of Chinese espionage is so critical that the commander of our military cyber-defenses has called it the 'the biggest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of mankind'. It is so bad, in fact, the United States may need to regulate the private sector and our companies need to submit to government monitoring." Viewed by many in the China policy community as unnecessarily provocative and hostile towards Beijing, the USCC has been one of a handful of groups within the American government that have been researching and reporting on what they see as a long-standing problem largely of China's making in this area. As the USCC and many of those who testified on Monday believe, China's cyber-security practices have long been egregious and now hold the potential not only to continue facilitating the transfer of intellectual property that Healey referenced, but also to put America's strategic interests at risk in the event of conflict. As Healey shared on Monday, "The Defense Science Board report that discussed hardware and software leakages, intrusions, supply chain attacks, and risk levels was researched in 1969. And yet we're still struggling." [...] ______________________________________________________________________________ Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP training with Expanding Security gives the best training and support. Get a free live class invite weekly. Best program, best price. www.ExpandingSecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Thu Mar 29 2012 - 01:58:27 PDT
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