A fascinating New York Times article and video explain how China’s walled-gardens like WeChat could be the future of the Internet for the west. But its not just the New York Times, in June Bloomberg wrote about Life in the People’s Republic of WeChat and this week’s Economist has a feature WeChat’s world: China’s WeChat shows the way…
China’s President Xi Jinping State Visit Comes at Critical Moment China’s President Xi Jinping arrives in Seattle tomorrow for the first part of a three-leg U.S. visit. In Seattle, President Xi will deliver a policy address, attend a roundtable of 30 U.S. and Chinese CEOs hosted by the Paulson Institute, visit a Boeing plant, dine with…
Tensions with China Increase With Escalating Evidence of Chinese Army’s Cyber Espionage Over the past two years, the United States has pushed China to be step forward and admit it was engaging in cyber espionage. Despite a flurry of reports detailing the evidence detailed below, the Chinese government has refused to accept any responsibility leading…
Bennet will be on the Jim Bohannon Show tonight to talk about China and Cyber Security on the eve of the President’s summit with China’s President Xi Jinping and the 1989 anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre. THE JIM BOHANNON SHOW LINK TO SHOW Jim Bohannon talks to special guests and his loyal callers about a…
SEGMENT 2: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS DC DIRECTOR DELPHINE HALGAND Podcast: Play in new window | Download (50.5MB) 1. New Report List 5 Companies as Enemies of the Internet On March 12th, the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that…
Cyber Cold War and Main Street Recent reports of hacking of news organizations such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal tied to China, Akamai’s latest threat report showing 1/3 of malicious traffic coming from China and a Mandiant report detailing widespread cyber hacking of US interests linked to a Shanghai…
Computer security company Mandiant has renewed focus on Chinese Cyber Attacks with its latest study detailing systematic attacks stemming from People’s Liberation Army facility in Shanghai. The report triggered denial’s in Beijing and raised questions as to whether the U.S. and China were heading towards some form of Cyber Conflict. The report had critics on…
Global E-Commerce Sales Surpasses $1 Trillion A report by eMarketer states that global e-commerce sales have surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2012. Total sales will reach $1.3 trillion in 2013 led by the big four – United States ($385B); China ($181B); United Kingdom ($142B) and Japan ($140B). China’s market has tripled…
We’ve taken great interest in Watson Meng’s Boxun blog that has made him China’s “Public Frenemy #1” and earned a spot among the Heroes in CLBR’s annual Heroes and Zeroes list. The blog has triggered a defamation lawsuit from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha actress Zhang Ziyi (represented by Glaser, Weil,…
Phil Corwin, Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association, returns to CLBR to discuss the controversy over the upcoming 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications organized by the International Telecommunications Union. WHAT: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-2012) WHEN: December 3 – 14, 2012 WHERE: Dubai, UAE WHAT’S AT ISSUE:From the New…
China Deemed Most Threatening Actor in Cyberspace China is “the most threatening actor in cyberspace” as its intelligence agencies and hackers use increasingly sophisticated techniques to gain access to U.S. military computers and defense contractors, according to the annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission mandated by Congress. The report added that Chinese hackers have…
Australia Abandons Net Censorship Plans; Google Blocked in China Australia, which surprisingly has a checkered history in terms of internet censorship, has abandoned a plan to filter all internet content. Instead, the government is working with Australian ISPs to block 1,400 child abuse websites on INTERPOL’s “worst of” list. When Australia initially announced the filtering program,…
US-China Legal Exchange Provides Valuable Perspective on State of E-Commerce in Both Countries The 17th U.S.-China Legal Exchange, a joint US Department of Commerce (“DOC”) and PRC Ministry of Commerce (“MofCom”) program. was held August 27-31 with workshops held in Harbin, Beijing and Guiyang focusing on recent developments in intellectual property rights enforcement and e-commerce…
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has issued its annual “Special 301” report which reviews the “state of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in trading partners around world.” Among the report’s findings was that the continued growth of the ” online sale of pirated and counterfeit hard goods that will soon surpass the…
Cyber Attacks Jump 81 Percent in 2011 Symantec’s annual internet security threat report reports that Symantec blocked over 5.5 billion attacks in 2011 – an increase of 81 percent. The report also details that hackers exposed 187 million identities in 2011; mobile vulnerabilities increased 93 percent and advanced targeted attacks spread to organizations of all…
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