China has the edge in cyberspy

As America and China grow more economically and financially intertwined, the two nations have also stepped up spying on each other- China having an upper hand according to most experts.A series of secret diplomatic cables as well as interviews with experts suggest that when it comes to cyber-espionage, China has leaped ahead of the United States. US investigators accuse China for stealing terabytes of sensitive data. April 2009, Wikileak cable even pinpoints the attacks to a specific unit of China s People s Liberation Army.The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating, says Alan Paller, director of research at information-security training group SANS Institute in Washington, DC.The leaked cables and other U.S. government reports underscore how Chinese and other state-sponsored and private hackers have overwhelmed U.S. government computer networks.In the last five years, cyber-intrusions reported to the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, have increased more than 650 percent, from 5,503 incidents in fiscal 2006 to 41,776 four years later, according to a March 16 report by the Government Accountability Office.