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Chinese search engine Baidu.com was stranded without technical support from its U.S. domain registrar immediately after being hacked last week, Baidu has alleged in its lawsuit against the registrar. An online chat representative at Register.com refused to help Baidu when contacted about the search engine’s domain name routing users to another Web site instead, according [...]

China on Friday slammed remarks made by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promoting Internet freedom worldwide, saying her words harmed U.S.-China relations. China resolutely opposes Clinton’s remarks and it is not true that the country restricts online freedom, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement on the ministry’s Web site. [ [...]

Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com has sued its U.S. domain registrar over a hack that took down the Web site, alleging negligence by the U.S. company, Baidu said Wednesday. Users had trouble accessing Baidu.com for several hours last week after the company’s domain name server in the U.S. was tampered with. The Iranian Cyber Army, [...]

Adobe has confirmed the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks Google cited this week as one reason it might abandon China. Meanwhile, some researchers have hinted, and others have claimed, that the attacks against both Google and Adobe were based on malicious PDFs that exploited a [...]

China said Thursday that foreign Internet companies are welcome to operate in the country in accordance with local laws, after Google defied authorities by saying it will end censorship on its Chinese search engine. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu made the statement at a news briefing when asked about Google’s threat to leave the [...]

Google risks having its online services blocked in China as it defies local authorities by ending censorship of results on its Chinese search engine, analysts said. Google has long removed sensitive search results from its Chinese search engine at Google.cn, but said Tuesday it plans to end the censorship and may ultimately shut down the [...]