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Hackers working for the Chinese military unit allegedly carried out a “massive breach” in December targeting records of the Office of Personnel Management workers, officials said. The OPM serves as the federal government’s human resource department and the agency compiles records and issues security clearances of all the federal government employees. The Office of Personnel […]
A military white paper said on Tuesday that China needs to take strong measures in order to speed up the development of a cyber-force to combat some serious security threats hovering upon its cyber infrastructure. Cyberspace is hailed as one of China’s four “critical security domains”, apart from the ocean, outer space and nuclear force, […]
When it’s about performing surgeries on vital organs, today’s advanced imaging techniques such as CT scans, MRIs and ultrasound machinery have made an easy access pass inside patient’s bodies for doctors even before they cut the patient open. This has done wonders for doctors and patients both saving them from unexpected situations. In recent past […]
In a surprising development, Russia and China have signed a cyber-security deal this Friday when Xi Jinping visited Moscow this week to celebrate the World War II’s end. According to the experts, these countries have signed a treaty to agree on not to conduct cyber-attacks on each other. It should be noted that recently China […]
For the past few days, we have been hearing about the Great Cannon. This Great firewall system developed by China is terrorizing the whole internet world by its potential to hijack anything and everything. Now the terror has started to spread its wings and taken it’s first attack on none other than Facebook. It should be […]
China’s foreign ministry has expressed serious concerns over the reports of hacking attacks on China planned by New Zealand and NSA in recent past. The U.S. intelligence agency tried to hack into a data link between the government buildings of China located in Auckland. A secret report named “NSA activities in progress 2013” has an item […]
China to Use Stronger Weapons to Censor the Web and it is called Great Cannon — It can block websites and interrupt international traffic like no one else. Lately, China has been bombarding American websites with Internet traffic in a bid to take out such services that let China’s web users to view websites that […]
Anonymous hacked several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The hacker behind this hack goes with the handle of @AnonymousGlobo on Twitter, who has been involved in several cyber attacks on different websites in past. AnonymousGlobo left a deface page along with a message […]
Territorial Disputes result in hacking of Chinese Websites by Anonymous Filipino Group. The Filipino front of online hacktivist Anonymous has managed to hack and deface numerous websites of Chinese government and commercial sector as method to record protest against alleged increasing aggression of Beijing in the disputed territory of West Philippine Sea. The Filipino group of […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Old Story: GitHub, one of the most popular websites among programmers and developers is was under continuous attack from Chinese hackers. The collaborative project development website is was facing a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. Whenever GitHub users outside China are trying to access web pages with advertisements served by […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Everything operating normally. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 31, 2015 GitHub is one the most popular websites among programmers and developers and is currently having 3.4 million users with 2.2 million active repositories. This software development web site used for collaborative projects is currently being hit by a massive […]
The Great Firewall of China known for censoring/blocking websites in the country was under DDoS attack which caused a blockage of Reuters’ news website in China on Friday. The content of the website was blocked and could not be accessed later on Thursday. Both the English and Chinese version were inaccessible but the Chinese clients could still […]
Well, something very unexpected has happened recently. The fact that China is having an army of hackers isn’t surprising; instead, acceptance of this fact by China is shocking. United States, India and many other countries have been suspecting this communist nation for a long time for carrying out cyber attacks. But, the every instance and […]
While you were celebrating valentines day, the hackers were busy doing what they are good at. Yes, on 14th Feb, 2015, a China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter (bter.com) came under massive breach in which $1.75 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen. Though the company is not revealing much information about the breach other than accepting that hackers […]
On Friday, several foreign-based virtual private network (VPN) providers reported a disruption in their services to Chinese users. Providers such as StrongVPN and Golden Frog noted that Chinese users faced difficulties in accessing some of their sites. The list of inaccessible sites kept changing each day. VPNs facilitate the connection between a computer, a smartphone […]
Outlook email users of China faced an outage over the weekend, possibly a victim of man-in-the-middle attack, according to media reports. Chinese users could not access the Outlook email, a free email service from the Microsoft, on Jan 17. Only IMAP and SMTP protocols on desktop and mobile were affected while the web interface remained […]
Since April 1994, when the first cable connected to China‘s Internet, the Beijing government strives to maintain control over online content accessed by the Chinese people. Since then, many sites have been banned in the country. And when they are not completely banned, they suffer from constant censorship. Last month, Gmail service in China was completely blocked […]
Electronic cigarette manufacturers may have highlighted its numerous benefits to letting you lead a healthy, stress-free life, what they certainly did not highlight was that the device can be used for malware distribution as well. Electronic cigarettes, popularly known as e-cigarettes, produce vapors simulating smoke of a real cigarette and to do this the device […]
The pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have been targeted with an Android spyware disguised as an #OccupyCentral app, according to a team of security specialist known as Code4HK. The fake app disguises as an Android app for tablets and smartphones. It seems the app has been developed to keep an eye and track #OccupyCentral pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Once […]
NSA hacked into servers of Huawei Technologies, a Chinese network manufacturer, and collected information to plant ‘backdoors’ on their equipment, according to latest media reports based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. NSA, however, declined to comment on the company specifically but in an email statement to the IDG news service, the agency said: […]
The official website of China‘s first Coal Bank (http://meitanbank.com/) has been hacked and defaced by Japanese financial companies and their Chinese partners, claimed by one of the founders of the bank, JinBen Investment Group Co. Hacker(s) left a deface page along with several messages on the homepage of Coal Bank site with abusive and bashing content against […]