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(AP)—High-level talks with the Chinese government to address persistent cyberattacks against U.S. companies and government agencies haven't worked, so officials say the Obama administration is now considering a range of actions.

"We have to begin making it clear to the Chinese," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday, "that the United States is going to have to take action to protect not only our government's, but our private sector, from this kind of illegal intrusions."

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Erst die „New York Times“, dann das „Wall Street Journal“ – offenbar greifen chinesische Cyber-Krieger internationale Medien an.

Relying exclusively on open source information, task is to assess the relative capabilities of certain countries identified in the literature (China, India, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and Russia) to wage an effective cyber attack against an adversary.

The words “effective cyberattack” by no means translate into the proverbial “take down” of the Internet; on the contrary,such attacks might involve intrusions into unprotected networks for the purpose of compromising data tables, degrading communications, interrupting commerce, or impairing critical infrastructures (such as transportation or medical and emergency services) in such a way that trust is undermined at the expense of a smoothly running economy and society.

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http://cyberwarzone.com/cyberwarfare/cyber-warfare-country-country-analysis

If your organization develops intellectual property that would be valuable to other countries to copy, you are a target and probably have already been compromised.

In its threat report for the first half of 2012, F-Secure summarized the pieces of the Flame malware, which according to some researchers claimed the title of the most complex ever. Earlier this year, The Washington Post cited anonymous sources stating that the malware was linked to a joint effort by the United States and Israel, though American and Israeli officials officially declined to comment. While arms races in the physical world have centered on countries letting their rivals know about their capabilities for the sake of deterrence, the world has not yet reached this stage when it comes to cyber-attacks, wrote Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure.

"Most likely, yes (we are in an arms race)," he told SecurityWeek. "But it's happening behind closed doors in classified programs, so we don't know much about it – so far. Only [the] USA has confessed doing this. But we must assume most technically advanced nations are stockpiling cyber arms."

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http://www.securityweek.com/todays-cyber-war-cold-war-some-say

Experts say cyber-warfare is the next big threat to world economies, where entire cities or countries could grind to a half from online terrorism.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-22/cyber-warfare-tipped-as-next-big-threat/4027176

Today, The Mandiant® Intelligence Center™ released an unprecedented report exposing APT1's multi-year, enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign.  APT1 is one of dozens of threat groups Mandiant...

Chinese hackers have been conducting wide-ranging electronic surveillance of media companies including The Wall Street Journal, apparently to spy on reporters covering China and other issues.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believed to be aimed at silencing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-syria-crisis-internet-idUSBRE8AT0PN20121130