Every chief information security officer worth their salt spends time thinking about the problem of shadow IT in their enterprise. Systems, hardware or infrastructure that might have been connected to your network years ago, for reasons no one can remember, were then summarily forgotten until years later when they become an entry point in a…
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Chinese cyber center points finger at U.S. over alleged cyberattacks to steal trade secrets
China’s national cyber incident response center accused the U.S. government of launching cyberattacks against two Chinese tech companies in a bid to steal trade secrets. In a notice Wednesday, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT) said a suspected U.S. intelligence agency was behind the attacks, and that CNCERT had…