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China slams US 'lies' about Huawei-government ties
May 24, 2019 (AFP)
Huawei has been thrust at the centre of escalating tensions between the world's two top economies, with President Donald Trump saying Thursday the fate of the c...
Fake Facebook accounts: the never-ending battle against bots
May 24, 2019 (AFP)
Here are four key questions on fake accounts: How did so many fake accounts crop up? Facebook said this week it "disabled" 1.2 billion fake accounts in the last...
China slams US 'lies' about Huawei's government ties
May 24, 2019 (AFP)
The fiery response came hours after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected Huawei's denials that the Chinese company works with the Communist government. Th...
NATO warns Russia of 'full range' of responses to cyberattack
May 23, 2019 (AFP)
Jens Stoltenberg's warning came with the bloc's members on alert for interference in European Parliament elections that kicked off in Britain and the Netherland...
Pompeo: Huawei not truthful about ties with China's government
May 23, 2019 (AFP)
When Huawei says it is not working with that government, "that's just false. That's just false," Pompeo told CNBC. "To say that they don't work with the Chinese...
UK has warned 16 NATO allies of Russia hacking attempts: foreign minister
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
He will accuse Russia's intelligence services of mounting a "global campaign" targeting critical infrastructure, during a speech at the NATO Cyber Defence Pledg...
US fires arrow into Huawei's Achilles heel
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
Citing national security, President Donald Trump last week effectively banned US companies from supplying Huawei and affiliates with the critical components tha...
WhatsApp, security and spyware: what happened
May 17, 2019 (AFP)
Here are five key questions and answers: What happened to WhatsApp? The security hole in the WhatsApp messaging app could enable an attacker to inject malware t...
Trump ramps up battle against Chinese telecom giant Huawei
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
An executive order signed by the president prohibits purchase or use of equipment from companies that pose "an unacceptable risk to the national security of the...
Huawei becomes flashpoint in China-US economic showdown
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
One day after the US moved to block Huawei from the US market and banned the export of US technology and materials to the company, China warned Washington Thurs...
China warns US against trade 'harm' over Huawei ban
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
At the same time, Beijing's diplomatic relations with Ottawa further soured as China formally arrested two Canadians on suspicion of snatching state secrets in ...
San Francisco ban highlights facial recognition fears
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
All but one of the nine members of San Francisco's board of supervisors endorsed the legislation Tuesday, which will be voted on again next week in a procedural...
San Francisco bans facial recognition use by police
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
Backers of the legislation argued that using software and cameras to positively identify people is, as city councillor Aaron Peskin put it, "not ready for prime...
Trump bars US companies from foreign telecoms posing security risk
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
The order signed by Trump prohibits purchase or use of equipment from companies that pose "an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or...
China blocks all language editions of Wikipedia
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), China started blocking all language editions of Wikipedia last month. Previously, ...
Huawei chairman says ready to sign 'no-spy' deal with UK
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
Liang Hua visited Britain as the government weighs the risks of allowing the Chinese company to help develop its 5G infrastructure. "We are willing to sign 'no-...
Beijing slams US for 'unreasonable suppression' of China Mobile
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said that because of China Mobile USA's ownership and control by the Chinese government, allowing it into the ...
US indicts Chinese hackers over 2015 breach; Blocks China Mobile citing national security
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
The department said the group was behind a campaign that targeted the computer systems of four distinct US industry groups, slowly and stealthily removing corpo...
Charges dropped against Canada vice admiral in leaks case
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
After reviewing new third party evidence in Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's case, they said they were "no longer of the view that a reasonable prospect of conviction...
Singapore passes 'fake news' law despite fierce criticism
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
They give government ministers powers to order social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to put warnings next to posts authorities deem to be false, and in e...
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