BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese cyberattacks against American companies and the government despite several years of escalating diplomacy and warnings.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who is in China for meetings with military and civilian leaders, says he raised the issue at every session, and came away with little more than agreements to talk again.
Cybersecurity analysts say the computer-based attacks coming out of China continue unabated, and in fact are expanding and focusing more intently on critical American oil, gas and other energy companies.
One American security expert says tactics of the China-backed hackers are also evolving, and they are more often going after corporate computer systems by breaching software weaknesses rather than gaining access by duping individual employees.
