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Gerry Smith

U.S. Attempt to Block Chinese Hackers May Open Door To Chinese Hackers

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.05.2013 | Technology

WASHINGTON -- Congress has for years tried to block China's major telecommunications companies from entering the U.S. market, fearing they may help Ch...

Big Data Under Attack

Tom Silva | Posted 03.20.2013 | Technology
Tom Silva

Like hanging on to clothes that don't fit, most of America's premier companies are starting to do essentially the same thing with data. The reason? They recognize the opportunity cost of not collecting data.

60 Days of Hacker Assaults

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 05.05.2013 | Technology
Hemanshu Nigam

Although the average computer user has little involvement with such significant security threats, the increasing prevalence of cybercrime places greater responsibility on consumers to protect their individual identities and personal information from hackers.

One Glaring Fact Points To Chinese Hackers Being Pros

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 04.27.2013 | World

BEIJING — Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyberattacks against foreign targets, insinuating such activity is...

Chinese Hackers Take Weekends Off

AP | By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 04.27.2013 | Technology

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyberattacks against foreign targets, insinuating such activity i...

Gerry Smith

Prestigious Washington Think Tank Hacked

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 02.22.2013 | Technology

Hackers spied on employees at the Aspen Institute for two months, snooping on their email correspondence before the FBI discovered the breach and trac...

Experts: China Spies Have Hacked Most Of D.C.

The Washington Post | Posted 04.22.2013 | World

Start asking security experts which powerful Washington institutions have been penetrated by Chinese cyberspies, and this is the usual answer: almost ...

Inside China's Super Cyberspying Unit

AP | By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 04.22.2013 | Technology

BEIJING (AP) — Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army has been recruiting computer experts for at least a decade. It has made no secret of detai...

5 Ways to Prepare for the Coming Cyber War

Adam Levin | Posted 04.21.2013 | Technology
Adam Levin

As news of major breaches roll in like waves on a storm-eroded beach, the likelihood increases that the next war we fight will be waged on computers aimed at crippling the systems that keep the wheels of government and daily life turning.

The Life Out Loud: Under Siege

MeiMei Fox | Posted 04.08.2013 | Books
MeiMei Fox

Ping Fu and I believe that irrational, angry, and personal attacks are not constructive. We stand on positive ground, with the support of people who know us and of reporters, reviewers, and bloggers who have actually read the book.

Energy Department Hacked, Personal Data of Employees Stolen

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 02.04.2013 | Technology

Hackers broke into the computer network of the Department of Energy last month and stole personal data belonging to several hundred employees and cont...

The U.S. Is Not Happy Its Newspapers Are Getting Hacked

AP | By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 04.03.2013 | Technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering more assertive action against Beijing to combat a persistent cyber-espionage campaign it b...

Gerry Smith

Why Antivirus Software Didn't Save The New York Times From Hackers

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.31.2013 | Technology

There is a booming industry that sells computer security products to consumers and businesses. But antivirus companies have a problem: Their software ...

Gerry Smith

White House Hacked In Spear-Phishing Attack On Unclassified Network

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 10.01.2012 | Technology

Hackers breached an unclassified computer network used by the White House, but did not appear to have stolen any data, a White House official said Mon...

Hacking In Asia Linked To Chinese Ex-Graduate Student

The New York Times | Posted 03.30.2012 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO — A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate studen...

A Dozen Chinese Hacker Teams Behind Most U.S. Data Theft

AP | Posted 02.10.2012 | Technology

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyberatt...

UK Tech News Blast: NASA Moon Launch, China's U.S. Web Hacking, HTC Sense First Look

Melanie Hick | Posted 10.26.2011 | Home

Welcome to your daily blast of tech news from around the web. This is where the tech conversation starts. Today, we talking the next NASA moon laun...

Gerry Smith

Report Outlines Massive Global Cyberspying Operation

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 10.03.2011 | Technology

More than 70 companies, governments and non-profit organizations around the world were attacked by hackers in a massive cyberspying operation that exp...

Shadow Network Spy Operation Hacks Dalai Lama Emails

AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

BEIJING — China-based hackers stole Indian national security information, 1,500 e-mails from the Dalai Lama's office and other sensitive documen...

Chinese City Is World's Hacker Hub

Times Online | Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

A CITY in eastern China has been identified as the world capital of cyber-espionage by an American internet security company. The firm traced 12 bi...

ClimateGate: Chinese Hackers Linked To Global Warming Emails?

Mail Online | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

The evidence passed to The Mail on Sunday now raises questions about whether Chinese hackers, backed by the communist regime, are the source of the em...

More US Capitol Computers Were Hacked From China

The Hill | Jordy Yeager | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

More Members of Congress have had their computers infiltrated by hackers within China than initially suspected, a lawmaker has revealed. Reps. Frank ...

Chinese Hackers: We Tapped Into Pentagon

CNN | John Vause | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim...