CYBER WARS - INDO DAILY

Israeli defence minister's cleaner sentenced for spying attempt

Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)

Omri Goren Gorochovsky, a 38-year-old resident of the central city of Lod, had been employed along with his partner as a cleaner in Gantz's home in Rosh Haayin ...

China accuses US of 'tens of thousands' of cyberattacks

Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)

Washington has accused Beijing of cyberattacks against US businesses and government agencies, one of the issues over which ties between the two powers have nose...

Trump's QAnon posts highlight Truth Social's extremist presence

Sep 04, 2022 (AFP)

Six months later, the former US president's amplification of conspiratorial memes and messages after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago estate indicates that extre...

Hong Kong court orders search of media tycoon Jimmy Lai's phones

Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)

Lai, owner of the now-shuttered Apple Daily tabloid, will soon go on trial for "collusion with foreign forces", an offence that carries up to life in prison und...

Finnish parliament website targeted in cyber attack

Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)

"A denial of service attack is taking place against the parliament's external website," parliament said in a statement. The attack began around 2:30 pm (1130 GM...

AFRL-developed cross-domain access system expands across federal government

Aug 08, 2022 (SPX)

"SecureView provides ready access to information on disparate security domains, reduces infrastructure costs and streamlines support of domain management," said...

US sanctions crypto 'laundering' service Tornado

Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)

The Treasury said Tornado Cash had been used to transfer at least $96 million of funds stolen in June from crypto exchange service Harmony Bridge, and another $...

Russian disinformation operation paid for pro-Ukraine war posts: Meta

Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)

The internet has been one of the fronts in the internationally condemned war, with Russia seeking to squelch criticism and promote narratives in support of the ...

UK parliament drops TikTok over China concerns; Taiwan govt websites attacked

Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)

"Based on Member (of Parliament) feedback, we are closing the pilot UK Parliament TikTok account earlier than we had planned," said a parliament spokesman. "The...

China's new quantum satellite now operational

Jul 29, 2022 (XNA)

The low-orbit satellite was designed to conduct real-time quantum key distribution experiments between the satellite and ground station, and to carry out techni...

'Prison Gothic': Hong Kong road signs reborn as new font

Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)

Their leader, Gary Yau, says he became interested in them when he was a boy, even learning to write some characters by copying them from road signs. As signs wi...

East Ukraine pro-Russians block Google

Jul 22, 2022 (AFP)

"We took the decision to block Google on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic," rebel leader Denis Pushilin said on Telegram, accusing it of promoting...

Belgium accuses China over 'malicious cyber activities'

Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)

"Belgium assesses these malicious cyber activities to have been undertaken by Chinese" hacker groups, a Belgian foreign ministry statement dated Monday read. It...

Facebook, Instagram release report on efforts to protect rights

Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)

For years Meta has been heavily criticized for a business model that has been accused of prioritizing extremist content in a bid to attract users' attention. It...

Written all over your face: An improved AI model for recognizing facial expression

Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)

Thanks to advances in technology, computers can do a pretty good job when it comes to recognizing faces. Recognizing facial expressions, however, is a whole dif...

MI5, FBI chiefs warn over China in rare joint address

Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)

Speaking to an audience of officials and business executives in Thames House, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum and FBI Director Chris Wray said the threat from...

Hacker claims major Chinese citizens' data theft

Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)

A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens' names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police repor...

UK probes hacking of army's Twitter, YouTube accounts

Jul 03, 2022 (AFP)

"We are aware of a breach of the Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts and an investigation is underway," said a ministry statement. "Apologies for the temporary ...

TikTok tells US senators data not shared with Chinese Communist Party

Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)

The social media company responded by letter Thursday to questions from nine Republican US senators about its data storage and access policies. The letter was i...

DARPA-Funded Study Provides Insights into Blockchain Vulnerabilities

Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)

Given its mission to create and prevent technological surprise, DARPA endeavored to understand those security assumptions and determine to what degree blockchai...