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Talk On Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Black Hat

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-cyber-army? dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "A talk on China's state-sponsored offensive security efforts scheduled for the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this month has been pulled after concerns were raised by people within the Chinese and Taiwanese government about the talk's content. The presentation was to be delivered by Wayne Huang, CTO of Armorize, an application security company with R&D operations in Taiwan. The talk was billed as an in-depth, historical look at the offensive capabilities and operations of China's so-called cyber-army."

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  1. China’s Cyber Threat Growing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    China is directing the single largest, most intensive foreign intelligence gathering effort since the Cold War against the United States.... http://www.securityweek.com/chinas-cyber-threat-growing

  2. Oh, Please! by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought Black Hat was one of those "we don't care who you are, we're going to talk about this" forums?

    Those types of organizations don't have annual conferences in Las Vegas.

    "Black Hat!" I mean, really. Who would you expect to show up at a Las Vegas venue called the "Super-Villain Expo," Lex Luthor, or wannabes in purple-spandex cosplay?