(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Chinese state media condemned as "irresponsible" suggestions the country was behind a massive global cyber spying campaign uncovered this week by a US computer security firm. McAfee described the sophisticated hacking effort as a "five-year targeted operation by one specific actor", without naming a country, but analysts and reports said China was the likely culprit.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Showgoers try out games at a PlayStation 3 exhibit in 2009. Japanese entertainment titan Sony had the dubious honor of winning a "Most Epic Fail" award Thursday at a prestigious Black Hat gathering of computer security professions in Las Vegas.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew)

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A Playstation Vita is presented to the media in June 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Sony's upcoming PlayStation Vita game console will not hit shops in North America and Europe until after the key Christmas holiday shopping season, the Japanese company said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)

(AFP/Getty Images) - Many Britons are welded to their smartphones 24 hours a day and refuse to turn them off in cinemas and theatres, according to a study showing how the devices are changing social behaviour.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)

(AFP/Getty Images/Illustration) - Photo illustration of an energy plant near the Salton Sea in California. Researchers warned that energy facilities and industrial plants of all kinds are vulnerable to destructive cyber attacks, in some cases with something as simple as a text message.(AFP/Getty Images/Illustration/David Mcnew)