US and China Held Secret Cyber Wargames

judgecorp writes "Despite the accusations that have flown both ways between the countries, the US and China have co-operated in wargames, held in secret in Beijing and Washington, designed to head off escalations in hostilities. From the article: 'During the first exercise, both sides had to describe what they would do if they were attacked by a sophisticated computer virus, such as Stuxnet, which disabled centrifuges in Iran's nuclear program. In the second, they had to describe their reaction if the attack was known to have been launched from the other side.'"

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China is victim of American computer war

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China has become the biggest victim of cyber attack,” says Zhou Yonglin.

The report claims Japan was the source of most attacks (22.8 percent), followed closely by the United States (20.4 percent) and the Republic of Korea (7.1 percent).

Attacks ranged from wiping server and defacing website to stearing personal and corporate data from Chinese web users.

Although it was discovered that many hacker used Trojan programs to stear personral data, Zhou said “money is not the sole motivation”, as in several cases the hackers had intended to access state networks and stear confidential government information.

To assist damaged private websites and maintain online security, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has raunched several investigations, and authorities claim they prevented the spread of online viruses 14 times rast year.