CYBER WARS

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60% of major US firms have been hacked in cloud
Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)
Researchers at the enterprise security firm Proofpoint said they detected over 15 million unauthorized login attempts to cloud computing networks of US Fortune ...
Google steps up battle on 'deepfakes' with data release
Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)
The tech giant is releasing "a large dataset of visual deepfakes we've produced" that can be used as benchmarks to determine if a video has been altered. The mo...
Czech intelligence blames China for major cyber attack
Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)
Without providing details, the agency known as NUKIB said the attack "was almost certainly carried out by a state actor or a related group," with "a Chinese act...
Facebook takes down pro-Trump pages with reported Ukraine links
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
The social media giant said in an email Tuesday it had taken down "I Love America" and related pages "for violating our policies against spam and fake accounts,...
Huawei exec in Canada court seeking to quash extradition
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
The 47-year-old Huawei chief financial officer was detained during a stopover at the Vancouver airport last December on a US warrant. The United States wants to...
Digital threats multiply ahead of 2020 US elections
Sep 22, 2019 (AFP)
As Americans prepare for 2020 elections, digital threats to election security are multiplying, stoking fears of a tainted outcome. Worries are running high foll...
Twitter closes thousands of fake news accounts worldwide
Sep 20, 2019 (AFP)
The move affected pro-Saudi accounts coming from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates directed at Qatar and Yemen, Twitter said, as well as others from China seek...
Facebook to stop news headline changes from advertisers
Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)
The leading social network confirmed the internal effort in the face of concerns over a BBC headline altered in an ad to evidently change the tone of an article...
Top Canadian police official arrested on spying charges
Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)
Cameron Ortis faces five charges under Canada's criminal code and its Security of Information Act, the federal police agency said in a statement. "The allegatio...
NASA Licenses Cybersecurity Technology to Equator Corporation
Sep 13, 2019 (SPX)
Equator worked with the Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for an exclusive license to the techno...
Poland to launch cyberspace defence force
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
"We're well aware that in today's world it's possible to influence the situation in states by using these methods (cyberwar)," Mariusz Blaszczak told local medi...
Apple: Security report on iPhone hack created 'false impression'
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
Apple spokesman Fred Sainz said in a statement the research released by Google created a "false impression" that large numbers of iPhone users may have been com...
In divided Iraq, 'electronic armies' threaten activists, media
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
Parties, armed groups and even officials in Iraq benefit from legions of supporters dubbed "electronic armies," which take to social media to anonymously sing t...
Uncovering the Who, Why, and How Behind Manipulated Media
Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)
"At the intersection of media manipulation and social media lies the threat of disinformation designed to negatively influence viewers and stir unrest," said Dr...
On face recognition, Americans trust police over private firms
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
The Pew Research Center survey found US adults have confidence in law enforcement on using the artificial intelligence systems by a 56-39 percent margin, and a ...
World's Most Powerful RF Emulator to Become National Wireless Research Asset
Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)
Supporting SC2's mission to reimagine new spectrum access strategies in which radio networks autonomously collaborate to determine how the RF spectrum should be...
A new alphabet to write and read quantum messages with very fast particles
Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)
Thanks to the introduction of a new method to write and read the message researchers at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences guarantee ...
Researchers warn of 'phishing' texts; Twitter nixes tweets by text after CEO hack
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
A report released by Check Point described a "new class of phishing attacks" that, when successful, can let hackers steal emails from Android smartphones made b...
Blocked Chinese Twitter accounts targeted Beijing critics: think tank
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
After combing through 3.6 million tweets from 940 suspended Twitter accounts, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said the accounts had conducted "blunt-f...
Huawei denies US allegations of technology theft
Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)
The US Department of Justice is looking into the claim, potentially adding to existing criminal cases against Huawei, the WSJ reported last week. Huawei -- cons...
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