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The sound of coronavirus: Israeli apps helping contain pandemic
Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)
In Israel, sometimes dubbed the "start-up nation" with nearly 10 percent of workers employed in high-tech, the coronavirus pandemic has seen a flurry of new tec...
Privacy rights may become next victim of killer pandemic
Mar 29, 2020 (AFP)
From China to Singapore to Israel, governments have ordered electronic monitoring of their citizens' movements in an effort to limit contagion. In Europe and th...
Coronavirus: Huge surge of hate speech toward Chinese on Twitter
Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)
"People are spending more and more time on social networks, communication apps, chat rooms and gaming services, and the problems endemic to these platforms -- h...
Fake cures, risky rumours: virus misinformation hits home
Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)
As the new coronavirus that has killed more than 20,000 people causes markets to crash and sets scientists scrambling for a solution, rumours and false claims a...
Asia deploys innovative, if invasive, tech to curb virus
Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)
When Hong Kong stylist Declan Chan flew home from Zurich earlier this week he was greeted by officials who placed an electronic device on his arm. The wristband...
The other virus threat: Surge in COVID-themed cyberattacks
Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)
The abrupt move of millions of people to working remotely has sparked an unprecedented volume of attacks to trick people into giving up credentials to attackers...
Russia puts surveillance, AI on guard against virus threats
Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)
President Vladimir Putin toured a new coronavirus information centre in Moscow that is pulling together IT resources including surveillance cameras and artifici...
US man gets 4-year prison sentence for spying for China
Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)
Edward Peng Xuehua, a naturalized US citizen, was arrested in Hayward, California, in September for arranging transfers of money and SD cards loaded with stolen...
Canada intelligence committee warns of 'brazen' interference by China, Russia
Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)
"The threat is real, if often hidden," the national security and intelligence committee of Canadian parliamentarians warned in its annual report. "The threat to...
Watchdog sues for data on airport facial recognition
Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)
The American Civil Liberties Union said it was seeking to force the Department of Homeland Security to release records on its contracts and policies for the tec...
Online Chinese users get creative skirting censors over virus whistleblower
Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)
The report features an interview with a doctor in Wuhan, the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak, who sounded an early alarm only to face disciplinary act...
US needs top cyber coordinator, better hacker 'deterrence': panel
Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)
Defense in cyberspace requires a series of government reforms and policies to strike back at attackers, according to the report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commi...
Huawei granted another 45 days to do business with US companies
Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)
The new provisional license expires on May 15. Prior to the extension, the previous license was set to expire on April 1. In May, Washington said it would black...
FBI arrests Russian accused of heading hacker 'storefront'
Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)
The FBI arrested Kirill Victorovich Firsov, described as "a Russian cyber hacker," and the administrator of the deer.io platform "which catered to hackers," acc...
Bill targeting online child abuse puts encryption in crosshairs
Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)
The bipartisan measure unveiled by US senators Thursday ties together two separate issues -- law enforcement's access to encrypted online content, and tech plat...
Researchers identify novel cybersecurity approach to protect Army systems
Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)
Networked devices and infrastructure are becoming increasingly complex, making it nearly impossible to verify an entire system, and new attacks are continuously...
US lawmakers told of security risks from China-owned TikTok
Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)
At a Senate hearing, officials from the FBI, the Justice Department and Homeland Security said the video-sharing app could become another tool exploited by Chin...
China hints at retaliation over US 'bullying' of state media
Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)
The US move comes after China expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters late last month, although the US said its decision was based on levelling numbers bet...
Building hardware to enable continuous data protections
Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)
Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) offers a solution to this challenge. FHE enables computation on encrypted data, or ciphertext, rather than plaintext, or unen...
US sanctions, charges two Chinese linked to N. Korean hack
Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)
Tian Yinyin and Li Jiadong are accused of working with Lazarus Group, sponsored by North Korea and blamed for the April 2018 hack of an unnamed cryptocurrency e...
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