SAN FRANCISCO – Google chairman Eric Schmidt has written a new book in which he calls China an “Internet menace” that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain.
The New Digital Age – due for release in April – reportedly brands China “the world’s most active and enthusiastic filterer of information” and says China is “the most sophisticated and prolific” hacker of foreign companies.<\/p>\n
Beijing has been accused by several governments, foreign companies and organisations of carrying out extensive cyber espionage for many years, seeking to gather information and to control China’s image.<\/p>\n
– It isn’t just government agencies that are the target of the Chinese hackers, according to growing reports: US media is also under increasing attack. <\/p>\n
The New York Times last week reported that its computers and those of Bloomberg had been attacked by Chinese hackers. <\/p>\n
Since then Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has also reported it has been a victim of Chinee attackers, and the Washington Post said its computer system had been attacked by China-based hackers in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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