CYBER WARS

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Huawei exec's lawyers say Meng is a 'pawn' in China-US feud
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
Meng, 49, is fighting extradition to the United States, where she faces charges of bank fraud and conspiracy for allegedly concealing her company's business dea...
Facebook derails effort to mislead protesters in Russia
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
The network off Instagram accounts used hashtag and location "poisoning" typically associated with spam or financial scams to drown out posts by protesters, acc...
State-sponsored hackers in China targeting email services: Microsoft
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
The company said the hacking group, which it has named "Hafnium", is a "highly skilled and sophisticated actor". Hafnium has in the past targeted US-based compa...
US lagging in critical artificial intelligence: panel
Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)
A report released by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence called for the country to invest $40 billion to win a strategic AI competition ...
U.S. not prepared to defend against AI-based attacks, report says
Mar 02, 2021 (UPI)
The report recommends that the United States invest $40 billion in AI research to keep up with adversaries including China and Russia in the AI field, and set a...
Huawei exec's extradition fight enters final round in Canada
Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)
The daughter of Huawei founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei faces charges in the United States of bank fraud and conspiracy over the commercial activities o...
Former defense contractor pleads guilty to taking classified documents
Feb 26, 2021 (UPI)
Izaak Vincent Kemp admitted that he illegally took 112 classified documents during his employment between 2016 and 2019 at the U.S. Air Force Research Laborator...
Technologies to Rapidly Restore the Electrical Grid after Cyberattack Come Online
Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)
According to the government's 2019 World Wide Threats Hearing, certain adversaries are capable of launching cyberattacks that can disrupt the nation's critical ...
DARPA launches entrepreneurial initiative to bring 150 national security innovations to market
Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)
Today, DARPA is launching an expansion of EEI with the goal of accelerating 150 DARPA-backed technologies out of the lab and into products that promise to funda...
Huawei exec loses UK court bid to access HSBC records
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou -- whose father is the Chinese company's founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei -- has been in a two-year battle against extra...
Anti-coup hackers target Myanmar govt sites as protesters jam Yangon roads
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
The cyber attacks came a day after tens of thousands of people rallied across the country to protest against the generals toppling Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian g...
Cambodia sets up China-style internet firewall
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
Cambodia has seen a rapid increase in internet use in recent years, and Premier Hun Sen's government -- which dissolved the main opposition party in 2017 -- has...
Digital warfare: Myanmar's cyber crackdown explained
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
These moves by the new junta have deepened worries that internet-hungry Myanmar will no longer have access to real-time information, be largely cut off from the...
Bangladesh orders Al Jazeera documentary be scrubbed from web
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
The Doha-based broadcaster released the hour-long programme titled "All the Prime Minister's Men" in early February detailing allegations that the country's sec...
Estonian spies warn China wants 'silenced world'
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
The spy agency also said that global dependence on Chinese technology was growing and that China "follows Russia's example" in spreading misinformation. "China'...
French firm denies 'damaging' hacking claims
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
Centreon, which lists blue-chip French firms from Airbus to Total among its users, was named in a report by the French national cybersecurity agency ANSSI late ...
French cyber agency reveals suspected Russian hacks
Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)
It said the hackers had taken advantage of a vulnerability in monitoring software sold by French group Centreon, which lists blue-chip French companies as clien...
Telenor stops listing Myanmar outages, citing fears for employees
Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)
While the junta has repeatedly forced internet providers to shut down or restrict access since seizing power, Telenor attempted transparency by listing the orde...
Twitter: Trump is off platform for good, even if he runs again
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
"The way our policies work, when you're removed from the platform, you're removed from the platform, whether you're a commentator, a CFO or a current or former ...
Israel offers tech giants plan to combat online anti-Semitism
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
"Anti-Semitism in all its forms is running rampant... under the auspices of unregulated social media networks," Minister of Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevich sa...
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