Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The U.S. could consider criminal charges or sanctions against China if the U.S. determines hackers there are violating an agreement not to conduct economic cyber espionage on American industry, a senior Justice Department official said Tuesday. The remarks by John Carlin, the Obama administration’s top national security attorney, came amid continuing skepticism about the effectiveness of the September agreement to curb cyber espionage and may signal a warning toward China despite what has been widely criticized as weak U.S. responses to years of hacking blamed on China. The administration has described its new agreement with China as an historic and important step acknowledging hacking and labeling it as illegal theft. The government has filed criminal indictments against specific Chinese military hackers in a previous case, and it can impose trade sanctions against foreign government officials and agencies it believes are responsible. “It was great we agreed to this norm, but that’s all the more reason when we agreed to this norm, why, when people violate that and you catch them, there’s a price to pay, be it criminal or through sanctions,” said Carlin, speaking at a think-tank event. But only weeks in, California-based company CrowdStrike Inc. said it detected at […]
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