"China Deploys New Weapon for Online Censorship in Form of ‘Great Cannon’"
April 10, 2015 | Andrea Peterson, The Washington Post
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China has moved beyond censoring Internet content seen by its own citizens to using a new cyberweapon researchers have dubbed "the Great Cannon" to silence critics around the world, according to a report released Friday.
"Don’t Be Fodder for China’s ‘Great Cannon’"
April 10, 2015 | Brian Krebs, Krebs on Security
China has been actively diverting unencrypted Web traffic destined for its top online search service — Baidu.com — so that some visitors from outside of the country were unwittingly enlisted in a novel and unsettling series of denial-of-service attacks aimed at sidelining sites that distribute anti-censorship tools, according to research released this week.
"China's 'Great Cannon' Could Hack Anyone, Researchers Warn"
April 10, 2015 | James Temperton, Wired UK
China's recent attack on GitHub and GreatFire.org was carried out using a specially designed offensive system dubbed the "Great Cannon" (GC), researchers say. The attack actively diverted unencrypted oversees traffic intended for search-giant Baidu, and used it to carry out denial-of-service attacks against anti-censorship tools.
"Another Reason for Ubiquitous Web Encryption: To Neuter China's 'Great Cannon'"
April 10, 2015 | Thomas Fox-Brewster, Forbes
China’s web censorship machine, the Great Firewall, has a more offensive brother, researchers have declared today. Called the Great Cannon by Citizen Lab, a research body based at the University of Toronto, it can intercept traffic and manipulate it to do evil things.
"Powerful Chinese Cyber Weapon Attacked US Coding Site"
April 10, 2015 | Elise Viebeck, The Hill
Security researchers have identified a powerful and previously unknown cyber weapon used by China to attack GitHub, a U.S. coding site. The system, dubbed the Great Cannon, is extremely dangerous and could be used to spy on Web users that visit Chinese websites or even sites with advertising content that is merely hosted in China, researchers said.
"Revealed: China’s Cyberwar ‘Cannon’"
April 10, 2015 | Shane Harris, The Daily Beast
Computer security researchers have discovered a new “offensive device” being used by China’s powerful Internet censors that gives them the power to launch attacks on websites and inject malicious viruses on computers around the world.
"China's 'Great Cannon' Can Intercept and Redirect Web Traffic"
April 10, 2015 | Russell Brandom, The Verge
Alongside the Great Firewall, China has been developing a new way to intercept and redirect internet traffic, according to a new report from Citizen Lab. The report looks at the recent denial-of-service attack against Github, which flooded the site with bad traffic for five days, resulting in intermittent downtime.
"Op-ed: Prosecution of Corrupt Silk Road Feds Won’t Help Ross Ulbricht"
April 4, 2015 | Nicholas Weaver, Ars Technica
There is something in the code of Bitcoin. No, I don't mean the blockchain, but rather a mental virus: it seems to corrupt almost everyone who touches it. It appears that a couple of federal investigators, in the process of attempting to take down the Silk Road, succumbed to this virus, allegedly stealing millions through various schemes.
"Google Wants to Eject Ad Injectors"
April 3, 2015 | Malay Mail Online
A study conducted in partnership with University of California Berkeley, reveals that one in 20 PCs accessing a Google-owned website is running potentially risky ad-injecting software.
"Google Says 5% Of Visitors To Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed"
March 31, 2015 | Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch
According to a study Google conducted with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, 5 percent of people visiting Google’s sites and services now have at least one ad injector installed.