CYBER WARS

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China calls AU spying report 'preposterous'
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
The report published last week claims technicians at AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital discovered last year that the contents of their computers had been...
Decisive Analytics awarded $59M contract for missile defense cybersecurity
Jan 29, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $59.4 million under a competitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract provides "imp...
China tightens screws on social media
Jan 28, 2018 (AFP)
The campaign is intended not just to stamp out dissent but to ensure that all media "serves the direction of socialism". Sina Weibo has failed to comply, Beijin...
Russia infrastructure spying could cause 'total chaos': UK defence minister
Jan 26, 2018 (AFP)
In unusually alarmist words from a senior minister Williamson told the Daily Telegraph that, in its research on UK power supply connections with Europe, Moscow ...
Data doom: 5 steps from Davos to digital dystopia
Jan 26, 2018 (AFP)
Online retailers and social networks collect so much data about us that they can watch us, control us and will transform us entirely, said Yuval Noah Harari, th...
97 Taiwanese arrested in eastern Europe for telecom fraud
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
Taiwanese crime rings around the world have for years swindled billions of dollars through the scams, with many of the victims Chinese. The arrests are likely t...
Canadian professor suspected of spying for China
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
Ishiang Shih reportedly used his research position at the school to obtain integrated circuits used in US military radar, jammers and scramblers. The computer c...
Lebanon must investigate claims of mass spying: rights groups
Jan 24, 2018 (AFP)
Digital researchers last week said they had uncovered a hacking campaign using malware-infected messaging apps to steal smartphone data from people in more than...
Lockheed contracted for national cyber range management
Jan 24, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $33.9 million and is a modification to a previous contract under the terms of a...
Facebook admits social media threat to democracy
Jan 22, 2018 (AFP)
The comments from the world's biggest social network were its latest response to intense criticism for failing to stop the spread of misinformation among its tw...
Chinese national sentenced to prison for stealing software code
Jan 19, 2018 (AFP)
A Justice Department statement announced the sentencing Thursday of 32-year-old Xu Jiaqiang, a software developer. The statement did not identify the company bu...
Former CIA agent's arrest follows US spying debacle in China
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
The arrest late Monday by US authorities of former Central Intelligence Agency agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee was reportedly linked to Beijing's brutal dismantling ...
Booby-trapped messaging apps used for spying: researchers
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
A report authored by digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation and mobile security firm Lookout detailed discovery of "a prolific actor" with nation-s...
Former CIA agent arrested with top secret info
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
Lee, a naturalized US citizen also known as Zhen Cheng Li, was arrested late Monday after he arrived at JFK International Airport in New York. The Department of...
Developing a secure, un-hackable net
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
With the EU and UK committing 1 billion euro and 270 million pounds respectively into funding quantum technology research, a race is on to develop the first tru...
China warns of US protectionism after Huawei setback
Jan 11, 2018 (AFP)
Huawei, which appeared to lose a deal with AT&T that would have given it an improved foothold in the US handset market, faced criticism from US lawmakers over i...
Huawei setback in US market amid national security concerns
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
Huawei, which appeared to lose a deal with AT&T that would have given it an improved foothold in the handset market, faced criticism from US lawmakers over its ...
Islamic State retreats online to 'virtual caliphate'
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
Back in 2015, when the jihadists held territory the size of Italy, they also commanded a huge digital presence, flooding the web with slick propaganda lionising...
Configuration Security Program to Make Network-Connected Systems Less Vulnerable
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
"With commodity devices, software and configuration settings now govern behaviors that were physically impossible in special-purpose hardware, creating security...
Hackers already targeting Pyeongchang Olympics: researchers
Jan 06, 2018 (AFP)
The security firm McAfee said in a report that several organizations associated with the Olympics had received the malicious email with the primary target being...
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