CYBER WARS

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Senegal launches African 'cyber-security' school
Nov 06, 2018 (AFP)
Senegalese Foreign Minister Sidiki Kaba and French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian gave the ceremonial start to the National Cyber-Security School (ENVR) on the ...
Worldwide web inventor wants new 'contract' to make web safe
Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)
Some 70,000 people are expected to take part in the four-day Web Summit, dubbed "the Davos for geeks", including speakers from leading global tech companies, po...
Despite crackdown, 'junk news' still flourishes on social media
Nov 03, 2018 (AFP)
Oxford Internet Institute researchers concluded that Facebook and Twitter remain filled with "extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary," and...
New tech delivers high-tech film that blocks electromagnetic interference
Nov 02, 2018 (SPX)
Andre Taylor, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, along with a team that included Yury Gogotsi...
Chinese-style 'digital authoritarianism' grows globally: study
Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)
The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid a rise in what the group cal...
Africa needs to beef up cyber security urgently: experts
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
Although Africa is not a prime target, "cyber threats have no more borders" and data pirates "attack anything that moves", said Michel Bobillier, a leader of IB...
China blasts Trump phone hack report as 'fake news'
Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)
The newspaper cited anonymous officials who said China and Russia had listened in to Trump's frequent phone calls with friends and allies made over his iPhone, ...
Questions mount over delay after Cathay Pacific admits huge data leak
Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)
The airline said Wednesday it had discovered suspicious activity on its network in March and confirmed unauthorised access to certain personal data in early May...
Apple chief pushes for US privacy law to stop 'weaponizing' data
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
"We at Apple are in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States," Cook told a conference in Brussels. Gossip, he said, had become a...
Japan orders Facebook to improve data protection
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
Facebook said early this month that hackers accessed the personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world's leading social network first disclosed lat...
Army researcher minimizes the impact of cyber-attacks in cloud computing
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
According to U.S. Army Research Laboratory electronics engineer Dr. Charles Kamhoua, technology has been the cause of many changes. Among the changes made are t...
China's ex-internet tsar pleads guilty to taking bribes
Oct 19, 2018 (AFP)
Lu, who oversaw a tightening of online censorship during his tenure at the Cyberspace Administration of China, was a fierce defender of China's policy of intern...
Facebook's launches 'war room' to combat manipulation
Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)
The freshly launched unit at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters in California is the nerve center for the fight against misinformation and manipulation of the l...
Twitter releases 10 million tweets from foreign influence efforts
Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)
California-based Twitter said it was releasing detailed data on previously disclosed misinformation efforts to allow researchers to gain more insight into the c...
Netherlands in a 'cyberwar' with Russia: defence minister
Oct 14, 2018 (AFP)
"What happened is really dangerous," Bijleveld told Dutch broadcaster NPO, referring to the incident, which happened in April outside the headquarters of the Or...
Facebook says hackers accessed data of 29 mn users
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
The company had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyberattack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal "access tokens" that e...
US arrests alleged Chinese spy after extradition from Belgium
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The Justice Department said Xu Yanjun, an official of the Ministry of State Security, had plotted since 2013 to obtain trade secrets of GE Aviation and other co...
New Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked: report
Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)
The Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon was unaware of how easy it could be for an adversary to gain access to the computer brains and software o...
Google says social network bug exposed private data
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
The US internet giant said it will "sunset" the Google+ social network for consumers that failed to gain meaningful traction after being launched in 2011 as a c...
Ahead of US election, angst over hacking threats
Oct 07, 2018 (AFP)
Halderman staged a mock election in which three conference attendees voted for George Washington, but an infected memory card switched the result to give a 2-1 ...
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