Cybersecurity

Shadow warfare: The cyber relationship between China and the US at 'breaking point'

Governments have always kept secrets. Governments have always spied. But the dramatic focus on technological advances in cyber espionage and hacking is shifting the battle lines of the 21st century.

Cyber attacks have now joined the traditional weapons of government as exploiting gaps in foreign networks, collecting zero-day vulnerabilities and installing network surveillance are just some of the tactics now used by nations with the ability to do so.

Nowhere is this escalation in the cyber arena being played out more openly than between the US and China.