FILE – China’s top search engine, Baidu is seen on a laptop screen.
Shannon Van Sant
April 22, 2015 1:13 PM
HONG KONG—China has long censored the internet with its so-called “Great Firewall.” But now researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Continue reading
Chinese Cyber Tool Poses Risks for Chinese Firms已关闭评论
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Portraits of Li Tingting (top L), Wei Tingting (top R), (bottom, L-R) Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan are pictured during a protest calling for their release in Hong Kong, April 11, 2015.
Shannon Van Sant
April 11, 2015 10:10 AM
HONG KONG—Chinese police have broadened their investigation into five women’s rights activists Continue reading
Women’s Rights Activists Await Formal Arrest in China已关闭评论
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April 10, 2015
This post describes our analysis of China’s “Great Cannon,” our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China. The first known usage of the Great Cannon is in the recent large-scale novel DDoS attack on both GitHub and servers used by GreatFire.org.
Authors: Bill Marczak1,2,3 (Lead), Nicholas Weaver2,3 (Lead), Jakub Dalek,1 Roya Ensafi,4 David Fifield,2 Sarah McKune,1 Arn Rey, John Scott-Railton,1 Ronald Deibert,1 Vern Paxson.2,3 Continue reading
2015-04-10
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
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China has added a powerful new weapon in its battle to control what its users see online, adding the “Great Cannon” to its existing arsenal of blocks, filters and human censorship known Continue reading
China Deploys New Online Weapon in Internet Censorship Game: Report已关闭评论
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By EDWARD WONG APRIL 8, 2015
BEIJING — Five women’s rights activists are being held illegally in Beijing because the police have failed to ask prosecutors to formally arrest them, the lawyers for three of them said on Wednesday.
According to Chinese law, the police are generally required to file a Continue reading
5 Women’s Rights Activists in China Are Being Held Illegally, Lawyers Say已关闭评论
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By BECKY DAVIS APRIL 6, 2015 9:37 AM April 6, 2015 9:37 am
Barnaby Yeh of the Sino-Judaic Institute leads morning prayers for Jewish descendants in Kaifeng.Credit Becky Davis/The New York Times
Over the remains of the Chinese-style Passover banquet – soups with bamboo and huge chunks of fresh tofu, steamed fish and platters of crisp greens in mustard sauce – Li Pengling, 16, Continue reading
By PAUL MOZUR April 02, 2015
One of the world’s great coding libraries is safe, for now.
As of Tuesday, GitHub, a site that hosts code for programmers, said that a major attack that seemed to come from the Chinese government had subsided.
For the last week, GitHub had been overwhelmed by traffic that security experts said originated from China’s Great Firewall. Continue reading
China Blamed for 5-Day Attack on Coding Site GitHub已关闭评论
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By Andrea Peterson March 30
A nonprofit group developing tools to get around Chinese online censorship says the Chinese government is behind a recent attack that sent a flood of traffic to its site and services. Continue reading
China has weaponized the Great Firewall, says a free-speech group已关闭评论
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