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The principal concerns are related to the possible exploit made by Chinese hackers of zero-day
vulnerabilities present is the cloud architectures, Cloud computing technology could be abused

for cyber attacks against military and government networks ensuring anonymity to the attackers.

The US Government is aware of the constant menace moved from China-based hackers,

President Obama’s administration has also tried a diplomatic resolution to request Chinese
Government in Beijing to adopt necessary measures to stop cyber-attacks originated from its
country and that are estimated to cost the US economy as much as $300 billion a year.

The report of the commission wrote that China’s Ministry of State Security, which is the
country’s main foreign intelligence collection agency, is “closely connected” to a special cloud-

computing zone in the city of Chongqing, of course all the Western companies that use could
computing services locate in the area are exposed to the concrete risk that their data are
syphoned by Chinese intelligence agencies.

"Developments in cloud computing in China may present cybersecurity risks for U.S. users and
providers of cloud computing services. The relationship between China’s Ministry of State

Security and the Chongqing Special Cloud Computing Zone represents a potential espionage
threat to foreign companies that might use cloud computing services provided from the zone or
base operations there. In addition, the plan to link 21Vianet’s data centers in China and

Microsoft’s data centers in other countries suggests the Chinese government one day may be
able to access data centers outside China through Chinese data centers states the document."

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