Do They Eat Digital Donuts Too?
The Associated Press had a report a couple of days ago on the Beijing police’s new program to discourage inappropriate internet use:
BEIJING - Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning [...]
Cyberwar & Cyberespionage: All Quiet on the Eastern Front?
With Germany’s Angela Merkel’s arrival in China for meetings with the Chinese government comes a report of Chinese attempts to steal information from German government websites. The Der Spiegel article says:
that a large number of computers in the German chancellery as well as the foreign, economy and research ministries had been infected with Chinese [...]
How to Get Sued in China
From the 16th to the 18th of August Skype had “an undetected software deficiency” that caused Skype to become “unstable from August 16, and as a result affected millions of Skype users around the world”, according to China Tech News. The article is about Tom Online, Skype’s Chinese partner, announcement that they have “worked [...]
Busted! Put the Joss Sticks Down and Move Away from the Computer
Shanghai Daily reports that four men have been charged in a court in Hubei with writing and disseminating the Panda worm. Sophos has an excellent rundown of the virus here. In summary the virus replaces the normal icon of a Windows executable with an image of a panda with three joss sticks and [...]
Tool: Who’s Been Writing About Me in Wikipedia?
Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can write and edit, is probably the biggest battleground on the internet. Everyone seems to have an axe to grind and the public editing model of Wikipedia is the perfect forum.
Although there are community editors that try to keep the content sourced and sound, inevitably [...]
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