{"id":1179690,"date":"2023-09-07T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179690"},"modified":"2023-09-07T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:14:52","slug":"how-china-gets-free-intel-on-tech-companies-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179690","title":{"rendered":"How China gets free intel on tech companies\u2019 vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/china-hax-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"image related to hacking and China\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/china-hax.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1260\" data-width=\"2240\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Wired staff; Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For state-sponsored hacking operations, unpatched vulnerabilities are valuable ammunition. Intelligence agencies and militaries seize on hackable bugs when they&#8217;re revealed\u2014exploiting them to carry out their campaigns of espionage or cyberwar\u2014or spend millions to dig up new ones or to buy them in secret from the hacker gray market.<\/p>\n<p>But for the past two years, China has added another approach to obtaining information about those vulnerabilities: a law that simply demands that any network technology business operating in the country hand it over. When tech companies learn of a hackable flaw in their products, they\u2019re now required to tell a Chinese government agency\u2014which, in some cases, then shares that information with China&#8217;s state-sponsored hackers, according to a new investigation. And some evidence suggests foreign firms with China-based operations are complying with the law, indirectly giving Chinese authorities hints about potential new ways to hack their own customers.<\/p>\n<p \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1966082#p3\">Read 22 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1966082&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1966082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How China gets free intel on tech companies\u2019 vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Wired staff; Getty Images) For state-sponsored hacking operations, unpatched vulnerabilities are valuable ammunition. Intelligence agencies and militaries seize on hackable bugs when they&#8217;re revealed\u2014exploiting them to carry out their campaigns of espionage or cyberwar\u2014or spend millions to dig &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1179691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1179690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}