The Canadian Armed Forces site was hit, as well as the country’s House of Commons site, though Ottawa said no major damage was done

The warning came on the heels of a Washington briefing which said Chinese state-linked hackers had stolen 60,000 emails from 10 State Department accounts

New regulations are causing consternation that publishing apps in the world's second largest economy is set to become very difficult

China’s Ministry of State Security made the claims in a report titled “Uncovering the main despicable means of cyberattacks and secret theft by US intelligence agencies”

Huawei's chip design unit has produced new chips for surveillance cameras, sources say, in another sign the Chinese tech giant has found a way around US sanctions

Sections in China's anti-espionage law, which was updated in July, ban the transfer of any information related to national security and interests, without defining those terms

The reported ban coincides with rising tensions between Beijing and Washington, and signals growing challenges for Apple

China's ban on iPhone use by government workers was extended to local government entities last month, raising fears that Apple and its suppliers could be hit hard by rising Sino-US tension

The finding coincides with news that New York City has banned the Chinese social media app on government devices because of security concerns

Some China watchers say Xi's focus on security is scaring off the money Beijing is trying to attract. Others say the country is making a painful transition away from its debt-fuelled growth-at-all-costs policy

But the draft Cyberspace Administration of China rules also allow broad use for ‘national security’ purposes

A top security official said the Philippines never promised China it would remove the old warship on Ayungin shoal; Beijing's claim was a 'figment of its imagination'