The Insikt Group, a research team of US-based cybersecurity company Recorded Future, claimed in a recent report that "a suspected Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group RedFoxtrot," which launched a series of cyber threats targeting Central Asian and South Asian countries since 2014, is linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 69010 located in Xinjiang. […]
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Since taking office, U.S. President Joe Biden has viewed China as a significant challenge in cyberspace and taken some harsh actions. Concerns have arisen around the world about whether this confrontation between China and the United States will escalate further.
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Decoupling has become a term du jour of China-US relations. Among that, technological decoupling is widely used by US think tanks and media outlets, to summarize the US government's many policies aimed at cracking down on China's technology sector.
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Cybersecurity has been a critical issue since the birth of the internet. Over the years, the internet has developed tremendously, from only dozens of networking devices in the ’80s to approximately 5 billion netizens today. With that, the concept of cybersecurity has constantly evolved, from computer viruses, junk mails, and distributed denial-of-service attacks in the beginning to more complicated challenges including cyberfraud, ransomware, data dredging and advanced persistent threats.
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China's top internet regulator is mulling a more specific security review on data going abroad, including companies that process data with more than 1 million users should report to the regulator before sending user-related data abroad, ramping up efforts on preventing data security risks. The Cyberspace Administration of China said in the draft guidelines that […]
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The digital technology dividends driven by globalization are being stripped away by a geopolitical game. A huge risk looms as the global technology ecosystem is distorted by politics. Cold War-style policies, including censorship, embargoes and lockdowns, are becoming buzzwords in the tech world.
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On July 19, Prof. Lu Chuanying was interviewed by SCMP on cross-border data flow and cyber security. The report is as follows. An outdoor installation at the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2021 in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 26, 2021. Photo: Xinhua China, with 29 data localisation policies, is the most restrictive country […]
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On July 17, Prof. Lu Chuanying was interviewed by SCMP on cybersecurity review. The report is as follows. A task force of seven ministries, including the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the public security ministry and the national security ministry, entered Didi Chuxing’s offices yesterday to conduct the country’s first cybersecurity review. The CAC said in a […]
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On September 8, China proposed the Global Initiative on Data Security to meet the new challenges emerging in global digital governance. State Counselor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the proposal while addressing the International Seminar on Global Digital Governance via video link.
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