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Security report finds Chinese cyberspying threat growing

A new report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has concluded that the Asian nation is likely using his sophisticated IT systems to spy on America.

Foreign journalists in China target of computer attack

Researchers in Canada have shed new light on what appears to be a systematic attempt to infect and compromise computers belonging to journalists working in China – an attack that coincides with a security clampdown in the country as Beijing's Communist government celebrates its 60th anniversary.

DuPont sues Chinese scientist for trade-secret theft

A subsequent examination of Meng's company laptop indicated he had downloaded files related to the technology from DuPont's databases and copied them onto an external drive.
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57,000 Websites Compromised in Mass Attack, ScanSafe Reports

ScanSafe has reported a massive compromise impacting 57,000 legitimate sites. When users visit the infected Web pages, they are greeted with a truckload of password stealers and other Trojans.
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Guilty plea for Detroit "spam king"

Five individuals pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Detroit for their roles in an international spam operation that sent billions of emails to tout Chinese "penny" stocks and used a botnet capable of evading spam detection. 
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