This post was made on 11/11/2018.
According to a senior U.S. Intelligence official, China has broken the agreement between the U.S. and China that states that both parties agreed to stop cyber espionage through the hacking of government and corporate data.
There have been allegations that China’s government has been supporting hacking groups for the past year or two. But what got the U.S. concerned about China is that there was a massive hack on the U.S. federal government’s personnel office that effected the data of more than 20 million people and this hack traced all the way back into China.
Now U.S. officials won’t say they if they believe this hack was condoned by the Chinese government, but it wouldn’t be such a far-fetched idea. The Chinese government of course have denied these allegations calling the allegations “baseless”. A Chinese government representative also said that “the U.S. should meet China halfway in jointly safeguarding the two countries”.
Both the U.S. and China are planning on having delayed top-level security dialogue on Friday but who knows if anything will actually be done about this whole Chinese hacking situation. Hopefully both parties will uphold to anti-hacking deal they have and try and prevent hacking groups from interfering both governments and societies. I do certainly hope both the U.S. and China do try to get along and actually make progress with ethical cyber-security laws because we need more of those. It would also help to have China with the U.S. on enforcing these laws so that other countries don’t try to interfere with each other through the cyberspace. In this time I think it is of utmost importance that we try and make these laws apply to all countries so we can have a well rounded cyber laws that clearly state what you can and cannot do. It’s time to stop dancing around these hacker groups like their above the law and actually make them pay for their crimes.
Cyberleech 