CYBER WARS

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Confusion clouds China's social credit system
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
The fledgling initiative has sparked fears the authoritarian state is tightening its grip on an already heavily monitored public, ensuring that only those stric...
Ma vs Musk: tech tycoons spar on future of AI
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
The Chinese co-founder of Alibaba and the maverick industrialist behind Tesla and SpaceX frequently pulled pained expressions and raised eyebrows as they kicked...
Australia moves to protect universities from foreign interference
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
With concern growing about China's clout on campuses Down Under, education minister Dan Tehan announced more intensive consultation between schools and governme...
German army seeks out gamers in hunt for computer-savvy recruits
Aug 24, 2019 (AFP)
With a stand boasting a helicopter simulator and ultra-fast games, the Bundeswehr, Germany's army, has turned to the Gamescom fair in its bid to recruit compute...
Google says YouTube campaign targeted Hong Kong protests
Aug 23, 2019 (AFP)
The announcement by YouTube's parent company came after Twitter and Facebook accused the Chinese government of backing a social media campaign to discredit Hong...
Canada accused of unlawfully questioning Huawei's Meng
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
Border agents detained her under the pretense of an immigration matter and never alerted her to a US warrant for her arrest, questioning her for hours before ev...
Twitter, Facebook accuse China of HK discord campaign
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
The American tech giants announced Monday they had suspended nearly 1,000 active accounts linked to the campaign, while Twitter said it had shut down about 200,...
Huawei dismisses new suspension of 'unjust' US ban
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules stopping the sale of components and services to the telecoms titan and a prohibit...
US gives Huawei 90 day reprieve on ban
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules banning US companies from selling technology components and services to the Chine...
US formalizes ban on govt contracts to China's Huawei, others
Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)
The interim rule will preclude any US federal agency from purchasing telecom or technology equipment from the firms "as a substantial or essential component of ...
North Korea stole $2bn for weapons from cyberattacks: UN report
Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)
The UN is investigating at least 35 reported instances of Pyongyang "attacking financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges and mining activity designed to ...
Sixteen companies chosen for $17.1B defense intelligence contract
Aug 06, 2019 (UPI)
The deal, a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract, is called Solutions for Intelligence Analysis 3 and will require companie...
Trump revives political bias accusations against Google
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
The latest diatribe from Trump was based on allegations voiced by a former Google engineer interviewed on Fox News. "I watched Kevin Cernekee, a Google engineer...
Faked Facebook accounts linked to Saudi Arabia, Mideast region
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
The campaigns appeared to be separate efforts, but both involved "coordinated inauthentic behavior" on Facebook and its Instagram image-centric social network, ...
US calls for release of jailed Chinese 'cyber-dissident'
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
Huang ran a website called "64 Tianwang" -- named after the bloody June 4, 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters -- that reported on sensi...
US woman charged in massive Capital One data breach
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
Paige Thompson, 33, a former Seattle technology company software engineer, was nabbed by FBI agents after she boasted about the data theft -- one of the biggest...
'Amateur' Capital One hack stuns security community
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
The motive behind the breach and extent of its impact remained unclear Tuesday, a day after FBI agents arrested 33-year-old former web engineer Paige Thompson a...
China's first 'cyber-dissident' given 12-year jail term: court
Jul 29, 2019 (AFP)
Huang Qi ran a website called "64 Tianwang" -- named after the bloody June 4, 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters. His sentence is one o...
China accuses FedEx of 'holding up' Huawei parcels
Jul 26, 2019 (AFP)
The ongoing tussle between the two firms comes as Beijing and Washington face off in a trade war in which both sides have exchanged steep tariffs on hundreds of...
Austria issues arrest warrant for Russian intelligence officer
Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)
Police in the Salzburg region said in a statement that "prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a 65-year-old spy handler in the Russian military intelligence se...
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