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Huawei exec vows to fight extradition to US in Canada court
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
Meng Wanzhou, 47, who faces charges related to Iran sanctions violations, was appearing at a Vancouver courthouse to set a timetable for her upcoming extraditio...
Pompeo warns UK over China network role
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
Following talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Pompeo also condemned "disgusting" politicians who backed Venezuela's Nicolas...
China's social media troll 'army' wages war on Uighurs
May 07, 2019 (AFP)
The social media onslaught was the handiwork of the self-styled Diba Central Army, a Chinese patriotic group that has targeted other pages in the past to defend...
Facebook removes more pages tied to Russian operators
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
The takedown at Facebook and its image-centric social network Instagram was described as part of an ongoing battle against "coordinated inauthentic behavior" wh...
No crime in Huawei 5G leak: British police
May 04, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday sacked Gavin Williamson as defence secretary over the leak last month of the bitterly-disputed decision made at the Apri...
US lawmakers: social media answers on extremist content too vague
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
The congressmen said Twitter and Google-owned YouTube provided incomplete responses and Facebook did not respond to the requests made by the House Committee on ...
Former CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for China
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, was arrested in January 2018, suspected of having provided information on a CIA network of informants that was brought down by China b...
Facebook bans conspiracy theorists, controversial black activist
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
"We've always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology," Facebook, which has been under intensify...
Dutch warn of 'worrying' Russian, Chinese cyber-spying
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Moscow's expanding conventional and nuclear forces are also a threat to the Netherlands and all of Europe, the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD)...
Vodafone identified Huawei security flaw decade ago
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Bloomberg reported that Vodafone, Europe's biggest mobile phone company, identified hidden so-called backdoors in software that could have handed Huawei unautho...
Putin says US jailing of Russian agent Maria Butina 'arbitrary'
Apr 27, 2019 (AFP)
"There is nothing we could accuse her of, but to make this case not look completely ridiculous, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison," he told journalists o...
Amnesty says Hong Kong office hit by China-linked cyber attack
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
The attack comes at a time of growing concern in Hong Kong over shrinking freedoms as Beijing flexes its muscles and western nations fret about the global domin...
US diplomat pleads guilty in China spying case
Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)
Candace Marie Claiborne, 63, was a Department of State office management specialist based in Beijing and Shanghai who became involved beginning in 2007 with two...
Ransomware 'hero' pleads guilty to US hacking charges
Apr 19, 2019 (AFP)
Marcus Hutchins, whose arrest in 2017 stunned the computer security community, acknowledged in a statement pleading guilty to criminal charges linked to his act...
Block China Mobile from US, FCC chairman says
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
The statement from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai could mark the beginning of the end for the Chinese telecoms giant's eight-year effort to...
Russia sentences Norwegian charged with espionage to 14 years
Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)
Frode Berg, 63, was detained in Moscow in 2017 following a sting operation by Russia's FSB security service. A former Russian police officer was accused of hand...
China using AI to identify Uighurs across China: NYT
Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has already attracted widespread criticism for its treatment of Uighurs in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where up to one million members of mostly M...
Warning issued on industrial plants as 'Triton' hack resurfaces
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
The security firm FireEye said in a blog post Wednesday that it had identified and was "responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker behind Triton at a...
Microsoft's work with Chinese military university raises eyebrows
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
Over the past year, researchers at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing have co-authored at least three papers with scholars affiliated with China's National Univ...
Facebook to crack down on groups spreading misinformation
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
Moves outlined by Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen were described as part of a strategy launched three years ago to "remove, reduce and inform" wh...
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