CYBER WARS - INDO DAILY

Musk's free speech absolutism 'a fantasy'

Dec 02, 2022 (AFP)

Musk claims to be engaged in "a battle for the future of civilisation. "If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead," he tweeted last...

US drops charges against Huawei exec who was held in Canada

Dec 02, 2022 (AFP)

Meng, who had fought extradition to the United States while Ottawa struggled with China's alleged retaliatory arrest of two Canadians, was freed in 2021 after r...

Chinese ambassador summoned over police stations in Canada

Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)

Ottawa formally raised concerns about the three outposts among more than 50 worldwide recently identified by Spain-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders,...

US Cyber Command and DARPA initiate rapid cyber capability prototyping and integration pilot

Nov 29, 2022 (SPX)

Known as Constellation, the pilot program will enable the flow of new cyber capabilities resulting from high-risk, high-reward cyber science and technology (S a...

Wordplay, blank signs, music: how China is protesting zero-Covid

Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)

Here's how many Chinese have attempted to evade censorship to demonstrate their anger and show support for protests: - Blank signs - Protesters in multiple citi...

Beijing protesters spooked by phone calls from police

Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)

Hundreds of mostly young people braved icy temperatures to gather near a riverbank in the capital Sunday evening, as a vigil for victims of a deadly apartment b...

US bans gear from China's Huawei and ZTE over security risk

Nov 26, 2022 (AFP)

Both firms have been on a roster of companies listed as a threat by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the new rules bar future authorizations of ...

UK clamps down on Chinese surveillance cameras

Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)

The move comes with the government moving more forcefully against China and its companies on security grounds. Last week it ordered a Chinese-owned firm to dive...

Germany army reservist found guilty of spying for Russia

Nov 18, 2022 (AFP)

The 65-year-old, named as Ralph G., is the latest in a string of suspected Russian spies uncovered on German soil. He was found guilty of providing Russian cont...

Chinese spy jailed for 20 years for economic espionage

Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)

Xu Yanjun was accused of playing a leading role in a five-year Chinese state-backed scheme to steal commercial secrets from GE Aviation, one of the world's lead...

India fact-checkers face threats, jail in misinformation fight

Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)

India has the world's largest number of certified fact-checking organisations, but many feel outnumbered and outgunned in a country with hundreds of millions of...

Cyber vulnerability in networks used by spacecraft, aircraft and energy generation systems

Nov 16, 2022 (SPX)

It goes after a network protocol and hardware system called time-triggered ethernet, or TTE, which greatly reduces costs in high-risk settings by allowing missi...

UN probes allegations of Egypt 'surveillance' at COP27

Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)

Participants at COP27 -- including activists, rights defenders, and civil society groups -- have raised cases of "surveillance" during the summit, which opened ...

Chinese spyware targets Uyghurs through apps: report

Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)

Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim minority predominantly in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a recent UN report said Beijing may have committed crimes a...

Apple limits file-sharing for Chinese iPhone users after anti-govt protest

Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)

Under the update to the AirDrop function, users of smartphones sold by Apple in China can only opt in to receive files from non-contacts during a 10-minute wind...

Surveillance 'existential' danger of tech: Signal boss

Nov 05, 2022 (AFP)

Meredith Whittaker, who spent years working for Google before helping to organise a staff walkout in 2018 over working conditions, said tech was "valorised" and...

Microsoft pledges $100 mn to Ukraine 'digital alliance'

Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)

Brad Smith said Ukraine would be able to use Microsoft's cloud services and data centres across Europe during the entire 2023. He told a news conference on the ...

Plea from Ukraine first lady kicks off annual tech summit in Portugal

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

Olena Zelenska told an audience of several thousand at the Web Summit's opening ceremony late on Tuesday not to put "technology at the service of terror" -- unl...

Australia admits cyber defences 'inadequate' as medical hack hits millions

Oct 26, 2022 (AFP)

This was the latest in a series of hacks targeting millions of people that have brought Australian companies' lax approach to cyber security into sharp relief. ...

China trying to 'undermine' US judicial system: Justice chief

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray detailed three separate cases in which Beijing's spies allegedly harassed dissidents inside t...