China and the US, which are embroiled in a bitter dispute over hacking, have agreed to set up a cybersecurity working group, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. "All of us, every nation, has an interest in protecting its people, protecting its rights, protecting its infrastructure," he told reporters on a visit to Beijing.

The recent wave of cyber-attacks launched by anti-Israel hackers on the eve of Holocaust day has not succeeded to bring major sites down, though the websites of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office and his Likud party were temporarily down on Tuesday. Since the eve of Holocaust Day, there have been at least a thousand attempts per day to breach into Israeli websites and though attackers have succeeded in some cases, they have only been able to penetrate small websites and less than five big ones. "They managed to bring down these two sites with a Denial of Service, which

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-China Business Council on Monday criticized a new U.S. law aimed at thwarting cyber attacks by discouraging the Justice Department and several other government agencies from buying information technology systems from China. "The national security of the United States is critical, but it must not be used as a means of protectionism," John Frisbie, the group's president, said in a letter urging leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives to block similar measures in the future.

Over a quarter of the members of a US business lobby in China have experienced data theft, the group said on Friday, after the two powers engaged in a war of words over state-sponsored hacking attacks. An American Chamber of Commerce in China survey of its members found 26 percent of respondents said "proprietary data or trade secrets have been breached or stolen from their China operations". Data theft "poses a substantial obstacle for businesses in China", the Chamber said in a report.