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China says hit by 500,000 cyberattacks in 2010
China said Tuesday it was hit by nearly 500,000 cyberattacks last year, about half of which originated from foreign countries including the United States and India. The news comes just days after US firm McAfee said it had uncovered a massive global cyber spying campaign it described as a “five-year targeted operation” by one unnamed [...]
Moscow warns NATO against extending missile shield
Russia cautioned the US and its NATO allies Monday against plans to extend an anti-missile shield into northern European seas. On a visit to Norway, Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin deplored the lack of any firm guarantees from the alliance that American ships fitted with anti-missile technology would not be deployed in northern waters. [...]
US helicopter crashed in Taliban trap: Afghan official
The Taliban lured US forces into an elaborate trap to shoot down their helicopter, killing 30 American troops in the deadliest such incident of the war, an Afghan official said Monday. US President Barack Obama pledged that the incident — which killed 38 people — would not keep foreign forces from prevailing in Afghanistan, and [...]
Wire pops lock certified for US defense facilities
Hackers at a DefCon gathering were shown how a high-security lock certified for use in sensitive US government facilities can be easily opened with just a piece of wire. Security specialist Marc Weber Tobias had plans to meet in Switzerland with lock-maker Kaba to discuss ways that the Swiss company’s Access Control E-Plex 5800 model [...]
Kashmir police arrested in deadly misconduct cases
Three policemen and an army officer have been arrested in Indian Kashmir as part of separate investigations into the death of a man in custody and an allegedly faked gunbattle, officials said Monday. Last month, Nazim Rashid, a 28-year-old shopkeeper, died after being detained by counter-insurgency police in the northern town of Sopore in connection [...]
Hackers deface Syrian defense ministry website
The website of Syria’s Ministry of Defense was offline on Monday after being defaced by the “hacktivist” group Anonymous to protest a bloody crackdown on anti-government protestors. Repeated attempts to connect to the site, www.mod.gov.sy, were met with an error message on Monday. On Sunday, the Internet vigilante group Anonymous claimed on @YourAnonNews, one of [...]
NATO probes Afghanistan helicopter crash
NATO says it is investigating Taliban claims that they shot down a helicopter killing a team of 30 American troops, many of whom were special forces, and seven Afghan commandos. An interpreter also died when the Chinook helicopter plummeted after a firefight with insurgents during an anti-Taliban operation late Friday in Wardak province, southwest of [...]
Time for US to take responsibility: Chinese state media
Democrats and Republicans in Washington need to stop blaming each other over the unprecedented US credit rating downgrade and find solutions, China’s official Xinhua news agency said early on Monday. The demand came in a lengthy and harshly worded commentary, the latest in a series in China’s state media. “Disappointingly, instead of reflecting on themselves [...]
Afghan chopper crash a major blow to US commandos
The loss of around two dozen elite commandos in a helicopter downed by the Taliban has dealt a major blow to US special forces, a key element in the strategy to wind down the Afghan war. A navy special forces member interviewed by the Navy Times expressed “shock and disbelief,” saying: “There’s no precedent for [...]
