CYBER WARS - INDO DAILY

Jan 12, 2022 (ESA)

During Cysec's annual conference in April 2022, ESA's OPS-SAT space lab will be made available to select, invited applicants to test their winning ideas in a co...

Arqit to Lead UK-AU Space Bridge Project

Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)

Arqit's FQS project for allied governments delivers strategic control to that government customer of a private instance of Arqit's end to end QuantumCloud techn...

Chinese spy spoof draws rare response from MI6 chief

Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)

The rare response by MI6 head Richard Moore comes as China and Britain clash over Beijing's treatment of its Uyghur minority and creeping authoritarianism in th...

Swiss army knifes WhatsApp at work

Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)

The ban also applies to using other messaging apps like Signal and Telegram on soldiers' private phones during service operations. At the end of December, comma...

Albania opens probe into huge personal data leak

Dec 23, 2021 (AFP)

Prime Minister Edi Rama and President Ilir Meta were among those whose private information started to appear on WhatsApp and other digital platforms on Wednesda...

Belgian military in five-day battle against cyberattack

Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)

Military spokesman Olivier Severin told AFP that elements hit by last Thursday's attack, which contaminated services connected to the internet, were still being...

China 'livestream queen' accounts disappear after record fine

Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)

Huang Wei, known by her username Viya, is one of China's most prominent livestreamers in an e-commerce sector that has accelerated its rapid growth despite the ...

Nobel winner Ressa says social media firms fuelling 'toxic sludge'

Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)

Ressa, the co-founder of news website Rappler, accepted this year's prize at a ceremony at Oslo's City Hall together with her co-laureate Dmitry Muratov, the ed...

Meta bans Myanmar military-backed businesses from all platforms

Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)

Myanmar's secretive military has extensive business interests, with tentacles in industries as diverse as beer, tobacco, transportation, textiles, tourism and b...

China calls on Canada to ignore Huawei risks 'invented' by US

Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)

The idea that the company is a threat to national security "is invented by the United States" and "the main purpose of that is to crack down on Huawei," said Co...

Hong Kong launches China-style tracking app for mainland travel

Dec 02, 2021 (AFP)

The app will allow mainland authorities to access a person's travel records under some circumstances. It comes at a time of heightened privacy concerns among ma...

Czech intel report says Russian spying hit by Covid

Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)

In its annual report, the Security Information Service (BIS) said the restrictions had reduced "opportunities for intelligence exchanges in the traditional area...

Satellite cyber-security and ride-share algorithms tested on Australian rocket

Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)

The software will help providers to upgrade onboard satellite cyber security as they join the 5G network, and allow satellite customers to request "ride-share" ...

US, China agree to ease restrictions on journalist visas

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

Washington regularly denounces the deterioration in China's treatment of US media members, and has taken measures against Chinese media on US soil that have bee...

Australia looks to wall off sensitive tech from China

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a list of 63 "critical technologies" to be promoted and protected at an online forum in Sydney -- a step toward limiting ...

Taiwan government faces 5 million cyber attacks daily: official

Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)

Taiwanese officials have previously said the island faces millions of cyber attacks every month, with around half of them believed to originate from China. Spea...

Hacker steals investment app Robinhood users' details

Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)

The culprit called customer support and, pretending to be an authorized party, duped a Robinhood employee into providing access to the customer support computer...

Ukrainian indicted in US for Kaseya ransomware attack

Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)

Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who was detained in Poland on October 8, was the most prominent of several people whose arrests were announced on Monday by US and European ...

Cybersecurity firm McAfee to be sold for more than $14 bn

Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)

The consortium led by Advent International Corporation and Permira Advisers will pay about $12 billion in cash to acquire all of McAfee's outstanding shares, wi...

US court convicts Chinese intelligence agent of economic espionage

Nov 05, 2021 (AFP)

Xu Yanjun, an official in the Jiangsu province foreign intelligence office of the Ministry of State Security, was found guilty in the Cincinnati court on two co...