"The Prism-gate affair again reminds us that we must attach even more importance to Internet and information security protection, and resolutely protect Internet security and national security," Colonel Yang said.
Mirai was also used in an attack on the information security blog Krebs on Security, run by the former Washington Post journalist Brian Krebs, in September.
"Why do we continue to see these large aggregate databases?" Eddie Schwartz, chief information security officer at the computer security firm RSA, said in an interview on Tuesday.
"Without information security, there is no national security in politics, economics and military affairs," declared an editorial in People's Liberation Army Daily earlier this year.
Chris Wysopal, the chief information security officer for app security specialists Veracode, called the flaw "Heartbleed for mobile", referring to the widespread bug that put hundreds of thousands of websites at risk of hacking in April 2014.
Jesper Kråkhede, senior information security consultant at IT security company Sentor "My first observation on keeping your kids safe online is not just to tell them the rules but also to spend the time to show them that you're the most trustworthy when it comes to the internet.
He has served as chief information security officer at eBay and chief security officer at Microsoft.
In a response to Thomas Friedman's call for approving the visas, the Global Times, a Party-run newspaper, declared that "information security is among China's core security concerns.
The secretive stuff won out, so I listened to thoughtful historian-bureaucrats Our government still reflects "a cold war system," which keeps documents classified too long, said John Fitzpatrick, who oversees national security information at the National Archives' information security oversight office.
[C14.] Security Firm Sets Sights on U.S. Módulo Security Solutions, a leading information security firm in Brazil, is setting off to conquer new markets elsewhere, both in Latin America and in the United States.
