The Hubei government refused to comment on the reports. It was unclear when the shutdown had taken place but the Black Hawk Safety Net site was unavailable on Monday.

Can You Trust Chinese Computer Equipment?

As you surely know, Google has accused China of hacking into its systems and is considering pulling out of China altogether. The U.S. government is taking this seriously, and Google has partnered with the NSA (National Security Agency) to get to the bottom of this.

"Economist" urges Washington to stand up to China

"Beefing up the deterrent capacity of Taiwan, which China continues to threaten with hundreds of missiles, is in the interests of peace. Mr Obama should therefore proceed with the arms sales and European governments should back him," the editorial said.

Kuomintang sued in U.S. court for recovery of stolen assets

International law expert Jonathan Levy has announced the filing of a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the business managers of the Kuomintang ruling party of the Republic of China in-exile to recover stolen assets.
The Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang has a long history of corruption and has accumulated billions of dollars.

Microsoft's Creative Destruction

As a result, while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it's an open question whether it has much of a future.

How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google

The company once known for its "don't be evil" motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.

PRC panda politics flops in Taiwan

After just one year, the two Chinese giant pandas, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, have joined President Ma Ying-jeou and his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party government on the short-list of the fastest flaming - out political stars in Taiwan.

Obama to Party: Don't "Run for the Hills"

President Obama vowed Wednesday night not to give up on his ambitious legislative agenda, using his first State of the Union address to chastise Republicans for working in lock-step against him and to warn Democrats to stiffen their political spines.

US arms sales crucial for Taiwan

The Obama administration is preparing a new arms package for Taiwan. Ironically, selling weapons to Taipei may be the best way for Washington to get out from the middle of one of the world's potentially most volatile relationships - the one between China and Taiwan.

What Haiti earthquake can teach Taiwan

Taiwan is naturally one of the countries most concerned about earthquakes as it sits precisely on the "Ring of Fire" and needs to develop far more extensive and effective disaster prevention, rescue and relief systems than most other countries.

Ballmer Defends Microsoft In China

"Mr. Ballmer has recently posted on the official Microsoft blog discussing future business in China and defending Microsoft's stance of cooperating with the government even as other large IT companies have begun making public condemnations (Google and Twitter being the most prominent).

China Rebuffs Clinton on Internet Warning

"The Chinese Internet is open," The statement by the Foreign Ministry, along with a scathing editorial in the English-language edition of The Global Times, a populist, patriotic newspaper, signaled that China was ready to wrestle politically with the United States in the debate over Internet censorship.

Behind Google's Recent Decision About China

Among the targets were the accounts of Chinese human rights activists; experts claimed the hack could be traced to the Chinese government or its proxies.

Military contractors targeted in Chinese attacks, says F-Secure

News of the attacks against the contractors comes in the wake of Google's bombshell announcement last week that it had been victimized by targeted attacks that appeared to have originated in China.

After Google's Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly

Last month, when Google engineers at their sprawling campus in Silicon Valley began to suspect that Chinese intruders were breaking into private Gmail accounts, the company began a secret counteroffensive.
But while much of the evidence, including the sophistication of the attacks, strongly suggested an operation run by Chinese government agencies, or at least approved by them, company engineers could not definitively prove their case. Even before Google threatened to pull out of China in response to an attack on its computer systems, the company was notifying activists whose e-mail accounts might have been compromised by hackers.

Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September

Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a browse and you're owned vulnerability in its flagship Web browser.

Obama says court ruling a blow to democracy

"This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.

Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on Google's China Web site, Google.cn, the company's chief legal officer, David Drummond, said in the post.
Google, by implying that Beijing had sponsored the attack, has placed itself in the center of an international controversy, exposing what appears to be a state-sponsored corporate espionage campaign that compromised more than 30 technology, financial and media companies, most of them global Fortune 500 enterprises.

Microsoft to Purge User Data Collected on Bing After Six Months

Bowing to pressure in Europe, Microsoft on Tuesday said it will redesign the worldwide operation of its online search engine, Bing, to eliminate all data collected on users after six months.

Haiti appeals for aid; officials fear 100,000 dead after earthquake

Bill Clinton aims to refocus international attention on this Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmental decay during his first visit as the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti.

Taiwan DPP promises strong protest against KMT local government plans

Two government proposals, backed by the ruling Kuomintang, have provoked widespread opposition. The first is the decision to let all village and township mayors in the five areas who have finished one term and who do not have legal problems automatically take over as appointed district chiefs for four years.

Ma's Leadership crisis in Taiwan

"How come Ma who once enjoyed high popularity is now facing a popularity rating that has dropped all the way down? While the Kuomintang and Ma's team need to examine the situation, the whole nation should think about this," Hu said.