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'Oh, bother': Chinese censors can't bear Winnie the Pooh
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
Major cyber-attack as costly as Hurricane Sandy: Lloyd's
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
The world's oldest insurance market and Cyence consultancy said the threat posed by hacking attacks has surged and the global economy will be increasingly vulne...
Chinese censors scrub emoji tributes to Nobel winner
Jul 14, 2017 (AFP)
The 61-year-old democracy activist died Thursday from liver cancer while under heavy police guard at a hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang -- but most...
Why you might trust a quantum computer with secrets
Jul 13, 2017 (SPX)
Writing in Physical Review X on 11 July, researchers in Singapore and Australia propose a way you could use a quantum computer securely, even over the internet....
US bans Kaspersky software amid concerns over Russia ties
Jul 12, 2017 (AFP)
The General Services Administration, which handles federal government purchasing contracts, said in a statement to AFP that Kaspersky Labs, a major global provi...
Utilities including nuclear firms hacked: NYT
Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)
It quoted what it called an urgent report issued in late June by the Department of Homeland Security. The intrusions happened in May and June and hit companies ...
Booz Allen Hamilton wins cyber-security contact
Jul 06, 2017 (UPI)
The single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for the use of automated security solutions for the agency's Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service, or eMass,...
Hackers could tap EEGs, observe brainwaves to steal passwords
Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)
A new study suggests EEG headsets, the set of electrodes that records brain activity, are hackable. By observing a person's brainwaves as their surf the interne...
Researchers demonstrate new firewall that protects cellphones from security threat
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Earlier this year, Dr. Yossi Oren and his team of researchers in the BGU Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering (SISE), discovered a securit...
IAI investing in European cybersecurity companies
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
These investments join IAI's cyber-operations in Israel, Switzerland and Singapore, where it operates R&D and innovation centers, the company said when making t...
NATO says cyber attacks a call to arms
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
Computer users around the world were scrambling Wednesday to reboot systems after a tidal wave of ransomware cyberattacks spread from Ukraine and Russia across ...
Chernobyl's radiation monitoring hit by cyberattack: spokeswoman
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
"Due to the cyberattack, the website of the Chernobyl nuclear plant is not working," said Ukraine's exclusion zone agency which oversees the Soviet plant that e...
China agrees to fight corporate hacking in Canada
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
The agreement was reached as part of ongoing bilateral security and trade talks. Western governments have accused Chinese hackers of stealing valuable proprieta...
China orders halt to video streaming on major websites
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said in a statement that the sites -- including the massively popular Sina Weibo micr...
Social media 'bots' from Russia distorting global politics: study
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
The Oxford University team presented research in Washington on the use of automated programs or "bots" on social media aimed at influencing politics in nine cou...
Data firm working for Trump exposed 198 mn voter files: researchers
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
Researchers at the consultancy Upguard said they discovered a "misconfigured database" containing sensitive personal details of the US voter database operated b...
Researchers discover shortcut to satellite-based quantum encryption network
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
"We were quite surprised by how well the quantum states survived traveling through the atmospheric turbulence to a ground station," said Christoph Marquardt fro...
Thales opens CyberLab facility in Belgium for training against attacks
Jun 08, 2017 (UPI)
The company's Cyberlab, located south of Brussels, will also educate students and enhance the skills of cyber-security specialists. "As the recent worldwide cyb...
SeaGlass brings transparency to cell phone surveillance
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
Recent leaks and public records requests have revealed that law enforcement in many U.S. cities have used the surveillance devices to locate suspects or hunt fo...
Saab starts cyber-security company
Jun 05, 2017 (UPI)
The company, Hyker Security, was established Saab Ventures, which works with spin-offs and spin-ins. "From as early as the development stage, Hyker Security inc...
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