CYBER WARS - INDO DAILY

MI5 dismisses UK-US relationship fears over Huawei: FT

Jan 13, 2020 (AFP)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under intense pressure from US President Donald Trump to prevent Huawei from playing a role in building Britain's 5G telecoms ne...

China facial-recognition case puts Big Brother on trial

Jan 08, 2020 (AFP)

Guo Bing took the wildlife park to court, raising the temperature in a growing debate about privacy and abuse of personal data in an increasingly digitised soci...

Jan 04, 2020 (AFP)

Google and Apple removed the app from their online marketplaces last month after The New York Times reported ToTok allowed the UAE government to track the conve...

Microsoft seizes web domains used by North Korean hackers

Dec 30, 2019 (AFP)

The US technology giant said a federal court allowed it to take control of 50 domains operated by a group dubbed Thallium, which tricked online users by fraudul...

UAE denies developing popular Mideast app as spy tool

Dec 28, 2019 (AFP)

Apple and Google removed the ToTok app from their marketplaces last week following a report claiming it allowed the UAE government to track users' conversations...

Von der Leyen sceptical on Huawei in Europe: report

Dec 27, 2019 (AFP)

Critics, led by Washington, say the firm is too close to Beijing and could by law be forced to hand over data to Chinese intelligence services. "If there's a ri...

MTS Advantage lands $90.8M contract for cyber red team operations

Dec 27, 2019 (AFP)

The contract funds Cyber Red Team operations, which the Department of Defense uses to conduct adversarial assessments of its networks. Contract funds in the amo...

Grand Theft Protest: Hong Kongers and Chinese gamers battle online

Dec 24, 2019 (AFP)

Over the last fortnight message boards and social media platforms used by gamers have filled with videos and chatter of the virtual clashes as well insults and ...

Dec 23, 2019 (AFP)

The moves come after The New York Times reported Saturday the app ToTok allowed the UAE government to track the conversations, movements, and other details of p...

Twitter, Facebook target state-linked accounts made to manipulate

Dec 21, 2019 (AFP)

Twitter said it had blocked some 88,000 accounts linked to Saudi state-backed "information operations", in violation of its manipulation rules. Separately, Face...

Facebook blocks group spreading pro-Trump posts from fake accounts

Dec 20, 2019 (AFP)

The campaign was one of two derailed for "engaging in foreign and government interference" and endeavoring "to mislead others about who they were and what they ...

China names and shames tech giants for app privacy violations

Dec 20, 2019 (AFP)

China, which exercises close surveillance of online activity, has recently tightened its scrutiny of companies that gather data from consumers. Xiaomi Finance a...

Facebook bans false information about US census

Dec 19, 2019 (AFP)

New policies go into effect next month at Facebook and its image-centric Instagram community, according to an online post by public policy vice president Kevin ...

Massive errors found in facial recognition tech: US study

Dec 19, 2019 (AFP)

The study of dozens of facial recognition algorithms showed "false positives" rates for Asian and African American as much as 100 times higher than for whites. ...

Merkel says 'no pressure' from Beijing to accept Huawei in 5G rollout

Dec 18, 2019 (AFP)

"I have not heard about any pressure from Chinese state authorities," Merkel told German lawmakers when she was asked if Beijing had sought to influence Germany...

Latest ransomware victim, New Orleans crippled by attack

Dec 16, 2019 (AFP)

In the attack detected Friday, New Orleans became the latest major city to be hit by ransomware in what has become an epidemic that has crippled networks in Bal...

Norway telecom operator snubs Huawei for 5G network

Dec 13, 2019 (AFP)

The decision came after a warning from Norway's intelligence services that Huawei was too close to the Chinese government, echoing calls by the US for its allie...

Austrian court strikes down 'Trojan horse' surveillance law

Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)

The court said that the powers envisaged under the law represented a "grave encroachment on the right to privacy". Such surveillance would only be justified "in...

Huawei wins contract to develop German 5G network

Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)

Telefonica Germany, the second biggest operator after Deutsche Telekom, said it was giving Huawei and Finland's Nokia an equal role in the project, calling the ...

China pressing Faroe Islands to use Huawei 5G system: media

Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)

The United States has pressured Europe to exclude Huawei from tenders for 5G networks because it says the company could serve as cover for Chinese espionage. Hu...