The White House released a high-level strategy paper on combating international intellectual property theft and pointed a not-so-subtle finger at China. The report promises increased criminal sanctions against thieves, diplomatic pressure on egregious state actors, and public-awareness campaigns.

While the administration carefully tiptoes around naming China specifically, six of the seven high-profile theft cases that the report highlights involved China. “This is what you have to do to get the Chinese to behave differently,” said James Lewis, a cybersecurity specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former top official at the State Department.

The strategy document dovetails a damning new investigative report from security company Mandiant which details over 100 attacks from an alleged covert hacker unit inside the Chinese military.

The report promises to leverage new counter-espionage laws, such as the The Foreign and Economic Espionage Penalty Enhancement Act of 2012, which increased penalties for economic espionage and corporate trade-secret theft.

On the public-awareness front, the report points to government website stopfakes.gov, a consumer-information portal for spotting counterfeit products and learning about ongoing anti-theft initiatives.

The message of the report is a between-the-lines dig at China. The document highlights espionage case studies in shaded blue squares of block text. The first six are all related to China. For example:

“Hong Meng was a research chemist for DuPont. He was involved in researching Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED). DuPont’s OLED research efforts resulted in the development of a breakthrough and propri­etary chemical process for OLED displays. Mr. Meng stole trade secret compounds and passed them to a Chinese university. He was caught by the FBI and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware and was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison. DuPont valued the loss of the trade secrets at $400 million dollars.”

While the president has been careful not to directly blame any countries, the White House essentially did point fingers at China in the report. And the report, of course, is only the beginning.

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The White House released a high-level strategy paper on combating international intellectual property theft and pointed a not-so-subtle finger at China. The report promises increased criminal sanctions against thieves, diplomatic pressure on egregious state actors, and public-awareness campaigns.

While the administration carefully tiptoes around naming China specifically, six of the seven high-profile theft cases that the report highlights involved China. “This is what you have to do to get the Chinese to behave differently,” said James Lewis, a cybersecurity specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former top official at the State Department.

The strategy document dovetails a damning new investigative report from security company Mandiant which details over 100 attacks from an alleged covert hacker unit inside the Chinese military.

The report promises to leverage new counter-espionage laws, such as the The Foreign and Economic Espionage Penalty Enhancement Act of 2012, which increased penalties for economic espionage and corporate trade-secret theft.

On the public-awareness front, the report points to government website stopfakes.gov, a consumer-information portal for spotting counterfeit products and learning about ongoing anti-theft initiatives.

The message of the report is a between-the-lines dig at China. The document highlights espionage case studies in shaded blue squares of block text. The first six are all related to China. For example:

“Hong Meng was a research chemist for DuPont. He was involved in researching Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED). DuPont’s OLED research efforts resulted in the development of a breakthrough and propri­etary chemical process for OLED displays. Mr. Meng stole trade secret compounds and passed them to a Chinese university. He was caught by the FBI and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware and was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison. DuPont valued the loss of the trade secrets at $400 million dollars.”

While the president has been careful not to directly blame any countries, the White House essentially did point fingers at China in the report. And the report, of course, is only the beginning.

126473861-Admin-Strategy-on-Mitigating-the-Theft-of-u-s-Trade-Secrets.pdf by

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Zhang Hongpeng is a Chinese sprint canoeist. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's K-4 1000 metres,^[1] finishing in 8th place with the team in the semifinal.^[2]

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1. ^ "Hongpeng Zhang". 2012 Summer Olympics. Retrieved 14 September 2012.


2. ^ "Men's Kayak Four (K4) 1000m Semifinals". 2012 Summer Olympics. Retrieved 14 September 2012.

 

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Apple has revealed that it was attacked by the same group that went after Facebook in a recent attempt to break that network’s security. The company says a “small number” of its Macs were affected, but there is “no evidence that any data left Apple,” according to a report by Reuters. The company will be issuing software to prevent customers from being attacked in the same manner, Apple said.

Apple’s report follows the news from Facebook on Friday that it was targeted by hackers apparently operating out of China. Facebook also reported that none of its users data was compromised through the attack. Apple is said to be workign with law enforcement on trying to find the source of the hacking attempt, and will be releasing a software tool aimed at its customers to help them protect their own Macs against the malware used by the unidentified assailant.

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Jolla, the Finnish startup formed by ex-Nokians with the hope of rising, phoenix-like, from the ashes of Nokia’s abandoned MeeGo platform — via its Sailfish OS — has secure an outside investment from a company based in Hong Kong.  The company, China Fortune, formerly known as Fortune Telecom Holdings, has taken a 6.25 per cent stake in Jolla.

Writing in an investor note on its website, China Fortune notes that a wholly-owned subsidiary acquired convertible bonds from Jolla last December and, late yesterday, agreed to exercise its option to purchase 11,944 shares for just over €1 million ($1.3 million). The share purchase is due to be completed by March 8.

China Fortune describes itself as “principally engaged in distribution and trading of mobile phones and related accessories, development of marketing and after-sales service network and mining and processing of celestite, zinc and lead minerals”. Its website also notes that it is the “sole fulfillment distributorship” for Nokia Professional centers in the mainland China.

China Fortune’s transaction note on the Jolla stake states it had been actively looking for “opportunities” to diversify its business. But goes on to say that investing in Jolla builds on pre-existing mobile-related components of its business:

With a view to diversifying the business of the Group, the Group has been actively looking for opportunities which will further enhance the shareholders’ value. Since the Group has been in the related mobile phone industry for decades, and the potential for mobile phone related business development is surely enormous and sustainable, mobile phone operating system and mobile internet are the major key business areas the Group is interested in. Although Jolla Oy is a newly established company in Finland, its team consists of well-experienced programmers and developers of mobile phone operating system. Jolla Oy’s coming innovative and brand new mobile phone operating system is expected to bring new impact and opportunity to the market.

Discussing the specifics of how the stake was negotiated, the statement adds:

The Total Acquisition Consideration was determined after arm’s length negotiations between the parties taking into consideration the opportunities for the Group to invest in Jolla Oy, to enter the industry of mobile phone operating system development, and the long-term strategic business cooperation potential with Jolla Oy.

At the time of writing neither Jolla or China Fortune had responded to requests for comment. We’ll update this article with any response.

A Hong Kong-based telecoms company taking a stake in Jolla makes plenty of sense given Jolla’s focus on the Chinese mobile market. Last July Jolla signed a distribution deal with the largest mobile phone retailer in China, D.Phone Group. This was followed, in October, by the creation of an alliance, based in Hong Kong, to help establish an ecosystem around Sailfish — an alliance that intends to contribute €200 million to help fuel the ecosystem. Jolla is also establishing R&D operations in Hong Kong and elsewhere in China.

“China is a game changer in the technology industry,” said Jolla’s CEO at the time of the alliance announcement. “The next big mobile change will come from China and Jolla wants to be enabling it. There are massive resources and competence to transport the whole industry.”

The scale of the Chinese mobile market was underlined by stats put out yesterday by mobile analytics firm Flurry — which put China ahead of the U.S. and top globally for active Android and iOS devices, with approaching 250 million active devices projected by the end of the month.