A Chinese Response to the Department of Defense’s New Cyber Strategy
Last week, a Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman condemned the Pentagon’s new cybersecurity strategy. Geng Yansheng not only opposed the “groundless accusations” about Chinese cyber espionage...
View ArticleOceanLotus: China Hits Back With Its Own Cybersecurity Report
Last week, SkyEye, Qihoo 360‘s threat intelligence service, released a report entitled OceanLotus. The report describes the working of an APT (Advance Persistent Threat) group engaged for at least...
View ArticleSouth Korea’s Difficult Path as a Middle Power in International Cyber Politics
Last month, I gave lectures on cybersecurity in South Korea shortly after Secretary of State John Kerry delivered remarks in Seoul on “An Open and Secure Internet.” This experience provided an...
View ArticleData Breach at the Office of Personnel Management: China, Again… Really?
The media has picked up on the Washington Post story that the Chinese government is behind the intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). While I’m not usually in the position of defending...
View ArticleLu Wei: Four Rules for Being a “Good Chinese Netizen”
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him on Twitter @dvdsndvdsn. As China celebrates its second annual National Cybersecurity...
View ArticlePlacing the Office of Personnel Management Hack in Perspective
Part of the reason I am a bit blasé about the Office of Personnel Management hack, is if the Chinese government is indeed behind it, it’s not by any stretch the most dastardly thing they have done in...
View ArticleIn Fighting “Mutant Chicken,” is KFC Helping Build the Case For Censorship in...
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him on Twitter @dvdsndvdsn. As Chinese authorities take aim, yet again, at online rumors,...
View ArticleWas There Progress on Cyber at the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue?
The seventh round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) concluded yesterday, and unsurprisingly an agreement on cyberspace was not among the 127 listed outcomes of the meeting....
View ArticleThe OPM Hack: Weighing the Damage to U.S. Intelligence
I finally got my letter from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). What a relief. I was worried my credibility as a commentator would be damaged if my data wasn’t stolen. Imagine how Dan Rather...
View ArticleChina’s New Cybersecurity Law
The National People’s Congress posted the draft of a new cybersecurity law (in Chinese) on Monday. The purpose of the law, according the NPC, is to maintain “cyberspace sovereignty.” The law is open...
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