Britain must be “clear-eyed” about China’s ambitions in the technology sector and be alert to the threat it poses, the head of the UK’s cyber security centre said on Friday. In her first speech as chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Lindy Cameron outlined the cyber threats the UK is facing. In July 2020, Foreign Secretary Raab said he was “deeply concerned” over evidence that “China is engaged in malicious cyberattacks against commercial, medical, and academic institutions, including those working to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.” “Recent global cyber incidents involving SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange have shown the range of cyber threats we currently face,” Cameron said in a virtual speech to an audience at Queen’s University, Belfast. Microsoft said earlier this month that a China-linked cyber-espionage group had been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, causing a global wave …