Among the issues on the agenda for the talks over the weekend between China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Obama were cybersecurity and attacks on U.S. targets by hackers based in China. Even if China had the will to act against hackers within its territory, doing so wouldn’t be easy. “The technical means to validate true reduction in cyberoffense are not very good since the advantage belongs overwhelmingly to the attacker in cyberspace,” noted FireEye CTO Ashar Aziz.
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Cybersecurity Tops the Agenda in U.S.-China Weekend Talks
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. June 10, 2013 11:54 AMAmong the issues on the agenda for the talks over the weekend between China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Obama were cybersecurity and attacks on U.S. targets by hackers based in China. Even if China had the will to act against hackers within its territory, doing so wouldn’t be easy. “The technical means to validate true reduction in cyberoffense are not very good since the advantage belongs overwhelmingly to the attacker in cyberspace,” noted FireEye CTO Ashar Aziz.