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China cyberattack apparently targets Indian military

(June 13th, 2016) The Sunday Standard of New Delhi reports that a Chinese cyberattack on Indian government units and business groups has led to an alert to the Indian military, which appears to be the main target. The paper reported that a Chinese Advanced Persistent...

Cohen: Collapse of the E.U. would be a catastrophe

  Roger Cohen warns in The New York Times of the perils that lie just ahead with what he sees as the terrifying possibility that the European Union could collapse if the United Kingdom decides to leave the E.U. Mr. Cohen implied that would make Russian President...

U.S. warship’s entry into Black Sea irritates Russia

U.S. warship’s entry into Black Sea irritates Russia

(June 13th, 2016) Tensions between NATO and Russia, already high, have gone a bit higher with the vaguely threatening remarks by the Russian Foreign Ministry that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would respond to a U.S. Navy destroyer’s entry into the Black Sea with...

Chinese government uses fake social-media posts to distract public

Chinese government uses fake social-media posts to distract public

(June 13th, 2016) A fascinating article in The Harvard Gazette tells how the Chinese government “fakes 448 million social-media posts a year in a strategy that seeks to create the appearance of ‘viral’ outbursts of Web activity, according to a new study by Harvard...

2 Israelis charged with huge hacking and fraud scheme

2 Israelis charged with huge hacking and fraud scheme

(June 13th, 2016) Two Israeli citizens pleaded not guilty on June 9 to charges of running a massive computer hacking and fraud scheme that generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit, Reuters reported. Gery Shalon and Ziv Orenstein entered their pleas...

Another too-close encounter between Chinese. U.S. planes

Another too-close encounter between Chinese. U.S. planes

(June 13th, 2016) In another case of scary close encounters caused by China’s increasingly aggressive posture in the East China and South China Seas, a Chinese fighter jet flew very close to a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane on June 7 in the East China Sea, where...