The idea that trading cyber-attacks between nations could lead to war isn't science fiction.
"This underground has grown so widespread in recent years that entire international virtual communities and black markets have been spawned across the Internet to help facilitate trade between cyber criminals scattered in different parts of the world," Mr. Chen said.
Mr Burns was speaking after the two-day talks with the Chinese officials on trade and cyber security in Washington.
Trade-oriented cyber espionage has long been an open secret of Chinese government and big domestic companies and firms.
For now, the government is avoiding the controversy of monitoring commercial networks, and instead trading its cyber-threat information for data about intrusions that private companies have detected on their own computers, says the SANS Institute's Alan Paller.
He serves as the Chief Operations Officer for Globaleyes which provides trade and cyber compliance risk management solutions to the U.S. Defense Industry.
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In addition, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va). said last year that guidelines issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission that called on publicly traded companies to disclose cyber attacks to investors have been "insufficient".
They had Gonzalez sprung from jail, and under the codename Operation Firewall helped him establish a closed network or VPN (virtual private network) for carders in which cyber criminals could trade stolen credit card details.
