China pulls out to IBM and Cisco

China states that Cisco is working closely with the American intelligence services and therefore, is guilty of cyber-espionage. Cisco denies this. In addition, consider the Chinese rulers banks in the country, IBM-servers to remove for fear of backdoors.

The relations between the US and China are further deteriorated after the U.s. government of five members of the Chinese people’s liberation army had been indicted on charges of cyber-espionage. Tuesday came the Chinese accusation that the American manufacturer of network equipment Cisco would conspire with the NSA and other inlichtingenorganisaties, as well as with the army. So would the Americans cyber-espionage on the Chinese network infrastructure to facilitate.

The accusation was expressed in the China Youth Daily, a newspaper that is in the hands of the Chinese government, The New York Times writes. Cisco denies categorically that the government works to protect the security of its hardware to weaken, for example through back doors in the firmware to build. Also denies the listed company data of the Chinese or others to monitor. Cisco’s sales results are, however, in the past year significantly decreased in the lucrative Chinese market.

Although the Chinese are no concrete steps to announce at Cisco, reports news agency Bloomberg that the country is watching, or the dependence of Chinese banks on IBM servers them, not makes them vulnerable. The central bank and the ministry of finance have a number of Chinese banks by way of trial, requested to servers from IBM, to be replaced by equipment of Chinese origin. A possible boycott in the purchase of IBM servers can be the American it-giant lot of dollars is going to cost you, so warn financial analysts.

China already has several retaliatory measures taken after the new American steps. So has the communist-led country contributed to a securitywerkgroep which, along with the US founded on the shelved. Also, it has Windows 8 banned on new overheidscomputers. The US would, in turn, Chinese people who wish to travel to the US to hackersconferenties such as Black Hat or Def Con to visit is no longer a visa grant.

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