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BBC urges staff to ditch TikTok over data fears
Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)
The British broadcasting giant reported that it sent staff a message on Sunday saying: "We don't recommend installing TikTok on a BBC corporate device unless th...
Greek defence minister says hit with Twitter cyberattack
Mar 19, 2023 (AFP)
"We apologise to the followers of Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos," his account said. "No information or data was extracted" in the attack, it added. No ...
Poland breaks up Russian spy ring
Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)
"The ABW counter-intelligence agency has arrested nine people suspected of working for the Russian secret service," Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski told repo...
China says US 'suppressing' TikTok after ban ultimatum
Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)
It came as the UK announced a security ban on the video app on government devices, in line with action by Washington and Brussels. Britain joins the US and EU i...
TikTok confirms US urged parting ways with ByteDance to dodge ban
Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)
Western powers, including the European Union and the United States, have been taking an increasingly tough approach to the app, citing fears that user data coul...
Russia woos foreign techies after exodus
Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of Russians have fled the country since the Kremlin deployed troops to Ukraine last February, with a wave of young men leaving after Moscow in...
QuSecure conducts quantum-resilient cryptographic communication link through space
Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)
The quantum-secure communication to space and back to Earth was made through a Starlink satellite working with a leading Global System Integrator (GSI) and secu...
ECB to test banks' cyber defences as risks grow
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
The ECB will carry out its first-ever cyber "stress test" to examine "how banks are able to respond to and recover from a successful cyberattack", the ECB's sup...
Canada federal police probing new rogue Chinese police stations
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
This follows the dismantling of several other stations in Canada that were believed to have been part of a network of more than 50 worldwide -- which Beijing ha...
China to revamp data, tech authorities in self-reliance push
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing is pouring resources into its manufacturing and research capabilities in the face of tightened restrictions on homegrown tech companies by the United St...
DARPA seeks input to advance hybrid quantum classical computers
Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)
These hybrid quantum/classical systems could enable technical disruption soon by superseding the best classical-only supercomputers in solving difficult optimiz...
China's students leap 'Great Firewall' to get homework help from ChatGPT
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
With its ability to produce A-grade essays, poems and programming code within seconds, ChatGPT has sparked a global gold rush in artificial intelligence tech. B...
Czech cyber watchdog calls TikTok a 'security threat'
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
TikTok has come under growing scrutiny in many countries over concerns the app may give Chinese authorities access to sensitive user data. The Czech National Cy...
TikTok finds 'partner' in Europe to offer security reassurances
Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)
The EU's main concern is over data protection as fears rise in the West over how much access the short video sharing app could give Beijing to sensitive user da...
Foreign journalists in China restricted and tracked in 2022
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
Nearly half of foreign journalists in the country were ordered to leave a place or denied access on health and safety grounds last year despite presenting "no h...
US lawmakers advance bill on banning TikTok
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
The Deterring America's Technological Adversaries (DATA) Act passed the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee on a party-line vote but faces opposition...
W.House gives federal agencies 30 days to enforce TikTok ban
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on government agencies within 30 days to "remove and disallow installations" of t...
White House open to tighter curbs on TikTok
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
The video-sharing service has more than a billion users worldwide including over 100 million in the US, where it has become a cultural force, especially for you...
Denmark's parliament tells MPs to uninstall TikTok
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
It follows recommendations from the Danish Centre for Cyber Security urging officials and civil servants to remove TikTok from their phones, after the European ...
Canada bans TikTok on government phones, other devices
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is Chinese, has faced increasing Western scrutiny in recent months over fears about how much access Beijing has to user d...
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