Dell makes half of its computers in China, through Quanta, a Taiwan-headquartered company.
They also built in mechanisms that would quietly communicate with computers in China every week or two, this person said.
According to official figures, there are now more than 250, 000 personal computers in China with connections to the Internet, and 1, 000 service-providers.
Both found links to computers in China, but the researchers did not conclude who they thought was behind the "malware, " or malicious software.
According to the Business Software Alliance, that discrepancy is largely explained by the fact that nearly 80 percent of the software used on computers in China is counterfeit.
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Around the same time, military contractors Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin were also hacked from computers in China, according to industry sources. (For more, see "Cyberspies Target Silent Victims".) Alan Paller of the SANS Institute says that many of those breaches may have involved a technique known as "spear phishing"--impersonating a high level official's e-mail to lure employees into revealing their security codes.
In recent years, U.S. authorities have dealt with cyberattacks linked to computers in Russia, China and Eastern Europe.
Sure, Lenovo's computers are made in China.
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Tech tracker IDC estimates 2.5 million tablet computers will be sold in China this year.
Cybersecurity research firm Damballa on Monday revealed a new collection of malware-infected computers, mostly located in China, that are set to target servers with Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, overwhelming victim sites with fraudulent traffic and taking them offline.
And does anybody in their right mind think that exporting computers to China is a growth industry?
Just because computers from China are classified as skill-intensive in America's imports does not prevent them from hurting less-skilled American workers.
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In China and India the destitute dismantlers of computers and electronic goods, many of which are shipped from rich countries, are often exposed to toxins.
Media organizations with bureaus in China have believed for years that their computers, phones and conversations were likely monitored on a fairly regular basis by the Chinese.
Last year, a handful of U.S. companies of all sizes said they were moving at least some manufacturing out of China and bringing it to the U.S. Apple CEO Tim Cook said it would produce some Mac computers in the U.S. this year instead of China.
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Six years later, she started selling other companies' computers and soon was responsible for half of Compaq's sales in China--the company's largest agent in the country.
They build AOL into their computers, so we can extend access to the internet to more people in China and in Asia.
After Japan and America, China is the world's biggest market for computers, in large part because parents are anxious to give their children every advantage they can.
In China the company's designs even show up in some desktop computers.
Now multiply that process by the hundreds of other similarly ubiquitous devices and gadgets: computers, Blu-Ray devices, and every other product that is designed in the United States and assembled in China from components made in the United States and elsewhere.
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