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China’s new cybersecurity law sparks fresh censorship and espionage fears – The Guardian

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China's new cybersecurity law sparks fresh censorship and espionage fears
The Guardian
China adopted a controversial cybersecurity law on Monday that it said would tackle growing threats such as hacking and terrorism but has triggered concern from foreign business and rights groups. The legislation, passed by China's largely rubber-stamp …
Chinese cyber-security laws raise espionage and censorship fearsSC Magazine UK
China approves law to tighten control on internet useCNBC
China approves measure to tighten internet use controlFox News
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KrebsOnSecurity moves to Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship

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Unless you are a bad guy intent upon nefarious schemes to exploit technology in order to make money, then you probably have a great amount of respect for security reporter Brian Krebs. The crimes, breaches and attacks he has exposed have been so stunning that it boggles the mind. If cyber thugs have a “most wanted” list, then Krebs is likely at, or very near, the top. Yet what kind of messed up world do we live in if criminals can exploit horribly insecure internet-of-things devices with such success that it can silence the voice of a journalist like Krebs?

He most recently ticked off allies of vDOS; Krebs wrote about the DDoS-for-hire company and the two teenagers allegedly behind it were arrested. Although it’s nothing new for his site, KrebsOnSecurity, to come under attack, like it did after his vDOS exposé, nearly two weeks later, Krebs’ site was hit “with the largest DDoS the internet has ever seen. 665 Gbps” (gigabits per second). Some of the POST request attacks included the string “freeapplej4ck,” referring to one of the alleged teenage owners of vDOS.

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Adblockers are “censorship” says ad-tech company

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Recent research by ad-tech company Oriel has found that adblockers are doing more than simply blocking ads and have accused them of “interfering, changing and potentially censoring web content”
Naked Security – Sophos

China’s ‘Great Cannon’ DDoS tool enforces Internet censorship

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China is deploying a tool that can be used to launch huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to enforce censorship. Researchers have dubbed it “the Great Cannon.”

The first time the tool was seen in action was during the massive DDoS attacks that hit software development platform GitHub last month. The attack sent large amounts of traffic to the site, targeting Chinese anti-censorship projects hosted there. It was the largest attack the site has endured in its history.

That attack was first thought to have been orchestrated using China’s “Great Firewall,” a sophisticated ring of networking equipment and filtering software used by the government to exert strict control over Internet access in the country. The firewall is used to block sites like Facebook and Twitter as well as several media outlets.

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