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The article focuses on the move by the U.S. government to recruit its allies to admonish China for state-sponsored hacking in 2021. Topics discussed include the identification of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) as the perpetrator of an attack on the Exchange electronic mail server of Mi...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 440; no. 9255; pp. 21 - 23
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 7/24/2021
Subjects:
Microsoft Corp.
Computer hacking
China-United States relations
International alliances
Chinese espionage
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on the move by the U.S. government to recruit its allies to admonish China for state-sponsored hacking in 2021. Topics discussed include the identification of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) as the perpetrator of an attack on the Exchange electronic mail server of Microsoft in March, call of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European Union and Great Britain for China to end the activity, and the increase in the number of Chinese espionage against the U.S.