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Accused Pentagon leaker pleads guilty, faces almost 17 years jail
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
Jack Teixeira, once a low-level Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist, was accused of orchestrating the most damaging leak of US classified documents i...
Supercharged EU armed - at last - to take on tech titans
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) marks a revolution in competition law, with the power to transform how the world's biggest players behave online. Its full impact ...
US imposes sanctions on spyware group members
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
Commercial surveillance tools "increasingly present a security risk to the United States and our citizens," said Treasury Under Secretary for terrorism and fina...
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira faces 16 years in intel leak
Mar 04, 2024 (UPI)
According to a plea agreement filed by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Boston, Teixeira, 22, pleaded guilty to six counts of retention and transmission of...
Germany accuses Putin of seeking to 'destabilise' with wiretap
Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)
A 38-minute recording of the talks was posted online late Friday on Russian social media, with the participants discussing the possible use of German-made Tauru...
Hackers stole 'sensitive' data from Taiwan telecom giant: ministry
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
The confirmation of the democratic island's latest major data leak followed a report by local news channel TVBS on the hack of telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom. T...
Russia labels author Lyudmila Ulitskaya foreign agent
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
The 81-year-old literary icon, who lives in exile, began protesting the Kremlin's authoritarian tendances in the Soviet era and is a fierce critic of President ...
Accused Pentagon leaker to change plea to guilty: court documents
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
Prosecutors requested a change of plea hearing for March 4, at which Teixeira will confirm his decision to reverse his current plea of not guilty. The Massachus...
US to limit sale of personal data to foreign adversaries
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
Biden will direct the Justice Department to issue rules protecting Americans' information such as genetic, biometric and geolocation data from "access and explo...
China vows to ramp up anti-hacking protections
Feb 26, 2024 (AFP)
China has in recent years accused other governments and foreign groups of launching cyberattacks on its digital infrastructure, while being blamed itself for sp...
'Fake love' crypto scammers ensnare US victims
Feb 26, 2024 (AFP)
The con -- which drained Shreya Datta, 37, of her savings and retirement funds while saddling her with debt -- involved the use of digitally altered deepfake vi...
Hackers for sale: what we've learned from China's massive cyber leak
Feb 23, 2024 (AFP)
I-Soon is yet to confirm the leak is genuine and has not responded to a request for comment from AFP. As of Friday, the leaked data was removed from the online ...
Massive leak shows Chinese firm hacked foreign govts, activists: analysts
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen gover...
Biden strengthens cybersecurity in US ports
Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)
The order establishes "minimum cybersecurity requirements" and aims to improve the reporting of incidents by ports and port facilities. "America's ports employ ...
Assange extradition: U.S. argues WikiLeaks documents endangered subjects
Feb 21, 2024 (UPI)
Attorneys for Assange argued he is a journalist and that publishing classified documents provided by U.S. army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was an act o...
Beijing urges US to end 'harassment' of Chinese students
Feb 19, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing has repeatedly alleged that Chinese nationals with valid travel documents have been subject to aggressive interrogations and deportations at US airports...
Justice Department says it disrupts Russian malware network on Internet routers
Feb 15, 2024 (UPI)
The Justice Department in a release said an affiliate of the Russian Federation's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) used malware to create a network of hundre...
Musk's X feeds monetization of wartime misinformation
Feb 14, 2024 (AFP)
Since Elon Musk's turbulent 2022 acquisition of X, formerly Twitter, the site has restored thousands of once-banned accounts and introduced a paid verification ...
State-backed hackers for Russia, China, Iran use ChatGPT
Feb 14, 2024 (AFP)
OpenAI and Microsoft said accounts linked to hackers have been shut down as the companies increase efforts to thwart malicious use of the popular AI chatbots by...
Bitcoin breaks $50,000 for first time since 2021
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
The cryptocurrency has enjoyed a strong run in recent months, fuelled by expectations US lawmakers would allow the creation of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that...
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