Report: China Probing Soft Cyber Underbelly
By Tom Groenfeldt, Technology Journalist - Contributor at CIOZone
In China today, there are thousands of people in a sustained effort to collect intelligence, many of them on an entrepreneurial basis within a competing bureaucratic structure. China understands that a strategic vulnerability of the United States is its soft cyber underbelly. I believe they seek to ‘own’ that space, says Mike McConnell, former director of National Intelligence and director of the NSA.
The Cyber Shot Twittered Around the World
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Unlike Russia, who to this day has successfully denied participation in cyber attacks on Estonia, Lithuanian, and Georgia; or China who vehemently denies their massive cyber espionage activities, the US has pretty much lent its support to a communication vehicle that is writing a new chapter in the history of cyber warfare.
