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Bounty platforms use white hat hackers to protect China from cyber attacks

By ⋅ March 31, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

More than 800 Chinese “white hat” hackers gathered in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province, on Thursday, to attend the China White Hat Conference held by 360 Business Security Group’s Butian Vulnerability Response Platform (Butian). Unlike movie-fueled myths, most of them looked like ordinary young people in their early 20s rather than cynical, mysterious computer “nerds”. […]

Cybersecurity Law aims to ‘protect people’s interests’

By ⋅ November 15, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Cybersecurity and related issues have been hot topics among internet and judicial experts since China’s first Cybersecurity Law was adopted earlier this month. The law and its related topics, including how to put coordination of government departments into practice and how to review products and services before they are made available on the internet, will […]

Chinese hackers clean up at PwnFest contest

By ⋅ November 14, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Chinese cyber security contestants from Qihoo 360 were crowned “Lords of Pwn” at last week’s PwnFest in South Korea. PwnFest is a newly-launched vulnerabilities pwning contest run by South Korean cyber security conference organizer, the Power of Community (POC). Supported by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe and VMware, the contest provides valuable information to the companies […]

Chinese whitehats awarded at international cyber conference

By ⋅ November 10, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Qihoo 360 Vulcan team receives an award from Microsoft Edge bug exploiting and pwning during the POC 2016 held on Nov 10, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] White hats from Qihoo 360 Technology Co have showcased the latest bug-fixing improvements at an international hackers conference. Organized by South Korean hackers and […]

Xi, Obama tout Sino-US cooperation on cybersecurity

By ⋅ September 5, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

As China and the United States agreed at the G20 Leaders Summit to enhance cooperation on cybersecurity issues, Chinese internet specialists called on the government to improve its network constructions and accelerate cybersecurity legislation. President Xi Jinping met US President Barack Obama during the summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, where they discussed several bilateral issues, […]

Chinese Premier Li rejects hacker accusation

By ⋅ March 19, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday rejected the accusation of hacker attacks against the United States, calling it “presumption of guilt.” Premier Li said hacker attacks in the cyber space is a worldwide problem and China itself is one of the major targets of hacker attacks. “China does not support but indeed oppose such attacks,” […]

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