Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Kevin G. Coleman, a Senior Fellow with the Technolytics Institute will provide testimony before the U.S. ? China Economic and Security Committee (USCC) on April 30th, 2009. The USCC was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for 2001. It is designed to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People?s Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action.

For years Coleman and other security experts, as well as intelligence agencies like MI5 in the UK, have warned that spies in China are conducting a campaign of cyber attacks and cyber espionage. This topic has gained increased attention after reports of China hacking the U.S. power grid and the discovery of vast Chinese cyber espionage networks that compromise of sensitive computers in 103 countries. Mr. Coleman first broke the hacking of the power grid internationally on his cyber warfare blog over a year ago and has continued to report on significant security events in cyber space. Last year USCC received a report that China's current cyber operations capability was so advanced, it can engage in forms of cyber warfare so sophisticated that the United States may not be able to counteract or even detect the efforts. Coleman?s work was referenced by U.S. Strategic Command in their testimony before this committee last year. Coleman, considered an international authority on information security, will testify to acts on cyber aggression; specifically, he will address cyber attacks, cyber weapons and cyber espionage activities of China and related events.