Journal #4

As many cyber-attacks and risks that the U.S. faces. It is not the only country that faces these attacks, as I would like to compare the cybersecurity risks between the U.S. and China. Just like the U.S., China is also expectable to data breaches. As the U.S. had breaches such as yahoo, Microsoft, and first American financial corp. China had a huge data breach in 1949 with the Shanghai police database which leaked police information such as criminals, contact numbers, and reports. With an event of data breach more recently in the year 2014 where Alipay, a payment platform, had been revealed to have had a data breach in turn leaking out transactional data. When doing the research compared to China the U.S. by a long shot has had more data breaches. With more comparison we move to phishing and the many forms of it. Just like the U.S. China was not given the luxury of not receiving these attacks. As the U.S. has a constant problem of phishing. As it is a prominent cyber-attack. In China there was a smishing group called the Smishing Triad that attacked U.S. and Chinese citizens. With these comparisons U.S. has had more phishing attacks, but China is not far behind in numbers. The campaign was so successful an article stated that went to UK, Spain, Poland, and Indonesia. Another cybersecurity risks that can be compared in computer worms as there are many worms that be brought in the U.S. like Explore Zip, Father Christmas, and ILOVEYOU. With China worms Strunex and Mocmex when comparing worm’s computer worms in general cause massive amounts of damage but, through the years Americas cases of computer worms have on record been more prominent and destructive. As we believe that many attacks come from inside and outside the U.S. and not from the countries that do them. This is not the case as hackers can come from anywhere even attacking their own country as seen from this paper. As there’s hacker groups that attack the U.S. like Volt Typhoon and there are hacker groups that attack China like the Smishing Triad. 

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