Chinese Human Rights Sites Hit by DDoS Attack

Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, as a separate row continued between Google and China over political cyberattacks.

The Web site of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy group, was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted 16 hours starting Saturday afternoon, the group said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. A DDoS attack involves the attacker ordering a legion of compromised computers all to visit a certain Web site at once, overwhelming its server with requests for communication and leaving the site inaccessible to normal visitors. The group said it could not confirm the origin of the attackers but called the Chinese government the most likely suspect.

For Pornography Crackdown, China to Scan Text Messages

Chinese mobile providers are up with a new way to keep China free from unhealthy content. They will now monitor all the text messages in the nation for "illegal or unhealthy content" and will immediately suspend service when any customer sets up such a red flag, according to a report in The New York Times.

Disputes lead to Android launch postpone by Google in China

No clash of titans may go farther than the recent major world issues - Google vs China. The problems between Google and Chinese Government are not on a downfall but will rise even more with the Google's latest announcement regarding the Android phones. After deciding to stop censoring its Google.cn results, Google has stepped up its offensive with the announcement that two Android phones -- one from Samsung and one from Motorola -- which were to make their arrival on China Unicom on Wednesday have now been postponed. Google says if China plays it good then the launch will just be postponed and if not, then its "never gonna happen".

China has the world's most-populous mobile phone market, with more than 700 million accounts and increasingly prosperous customers who readily pay for the latest technology and services.

Internal Sabotag involved in Google attack - Rumour or Truth?

Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December.

Google, the world's most popular search engine, said last week it may pull out of the world's biggest Internet market by users after reporting it had been hit by a "sophisticated" cyber-attack on its network that resulted in theft of its intellectual property.