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China social media users beg for accounts back after protest ban
Oct 17, 2022 (AFP)
The app is critical to daily life in China, allowing hundreds of millions of people to communicate, make payments, take part in Covid contact tracing and access...
German spy chief warns of 'naivety' towards China
Oct 17, 2022 (AFP)
There is "certainly still room for improvement" when it comes to dealing with contacts from Chinese authorities, said the head of the BND foreign intelligence a...
Hacking revelations put Mexico military on defensive
Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)
A trove of sensitive information was stolen from the Mexican defense ministry by the collective called Guacamaya, which has also claimed cyberattacks in Chile, ...
The censor cannot hold: the pressure of controlling China's internet
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
A decade later, he was part of the sprawling censorship machine that suffocates China's cyberspace, tasked with stopping the spread of anything the Communist Pa...
UK spy chief warns China's technology is 'urgent problem'
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
In a speech to the RUSI defence think-tank in London, Jeremy Fleming said "technology has become not just an area for opportunity, for competition and for colla...
UK spy chief to warn of 'huge' China tech threat
Oct 10, 2022 (AFP)
Jeremy Fleming, the director of the cybersecurity agency, is set to tell a British defence studies body that the Chinese Communist Party views technologies such...
Biden signs executive order on US-EU personal data privacy
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
The executive order provides a new legal framework for trans-Atlantic data flows that are critical to the digital economy, the White House said. It will be subj...
'Watched the whole time': China's surveillance state grows under Xi
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
But soon after his tirade against "simple-minded" traffic cops in June, he found himself in the tentacles of the communist country's omniscient surveillance app...
Hong Kong men charged with sedition over social media posts
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has imposed a sweeping political crackdown on Hong Kong after the Chinese finance hub saw huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests three years ...
Cyber warfare rife in Ukraine, but impact stays in shadows
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Western allies initially feared a tsunami of cyberattacks against Ukraine's military command and critical infrastructure, hindering its ability to resist the Ru...
Meta says China-based campaign aimed at US election
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
It was the first Chinese network Meta has disrupted that focused on US politics ahead of crucial midterm elections in November, global threat intelligence lead ...
Chinese engineer convicted in US of aiding spy agency
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
Ji Chaoqun, 31, was convicted Monday of illegally acting as an agent of a foreign government and of making false statements after a two-week trial in Chicago. H...
SES, ESA and EC partner to deliver satellite quantum cryptography
Sep 25, 2022 (SPX)
The groundbreaking partnership between ESA and an SES-led consortium, with the European Commission support, is advancing Europe to the front of space innovation...
Quantum encryption to boost European autonomy
Sep 25, 2022 (ESA)
The Eagle-1 satellite will be the first space-based quantum key distribution system in Europe to be developed in this partnership, under a contract just agreed ...
Hong Kong sees explosion in scams impersonating officials
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
The spike comes as an economic downturn weighs on the city and authorities crack down on dissent after huge democracy protests three years ago, fuelling a fear ...
Is the Pentagon using Twitter for disinformation?
Sep 20, 2022 (AFP)
Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder confirmed the review after a Washington Post report said social media giants Facebook and Twitter had shut down a number of fake ac...
Starbucks Singapore says customer database breached
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
The coffee chain -- a licensed Starbucks franchise owned by Hong Kong-based Maxim's Caterers -- said in an email to customers that it had "discovered... some un...
Ex-Google CEO says Ukraine proves value of IT in war
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
Schmidt, now a US government consultant on artificial intelligence, told reporters after a 36-hour visit to the country that the civilian tech sector has been c...
NATO condemns alleged Iranian cyberattack on Albania
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
"We stand in solidarity with Albania following the recent cyber attack on its national information infrastructure," NATO allies said. "We strongly condemn such ...
FBI found intel on foreign govt's nuclear readiness at Trump home: report
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The newspaper, citing unnamed sources familiar with the case, said that some of the documents found in Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence were so highly classified th...
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