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A US congressional advisory panel said Thursday that China was ratcheting up its cyberspying operations against the US.


According to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (ESRC) report, "China is likely using its maturing computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the US Government and industry by conducting a long-term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign."


The commission contracted analysts at defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp to write the report.


Citing an example of a carefully orchestrated campaign against one US company, the report concluded the company's internal analysis indicated the attack originated in or came through China without providing a damage assessment that or any specific idea of who was behind the attack.


"They operated at times using a communication channel between a host with an IP address located in the People's Republic of China and a server on the company's internal network, a technique observed consistently in similar intrusions at other commercial firms," said the report.


Global Times

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The security measures need to be improved in accordance with the more innovative threats "in the wild" on the global network.  It is said that in the U.S. 90% of sensitive military and corporate data transmission is conducted on the public network "WWW" and is vunerable to a variety of compromises and network issues.  These reports of network compromise and exploitation are not as common from other countries with newer network infrastructures.

The problem with finger-pointing is that it doesn't take into account that the source of the attack can be redirected and obfuscated to mislead the trace of the malicious network activity.  Finger-pointing only promotes a hostility.  A more "behind the scenes" effort with China and the U.S. to work together to locate the source and reduce the cyber-threat would be far more constructive.

(Quoting CCTV9/Xinhua)
A report released Thursday by the U.S.- China Economic and SecurityReview Commission to the Congress said China was ratching up cyberespionage operations against the United States.

"The commission has always played up 'China threat,'" ForeignMinistry Spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said when asked to comment on the report.

"It has arisen out of a 'Cold War mindset'," Ma said. "The commissionshould stop releasing such kind of reports and instead do somethingthat will benefit the China-U.S. relations."