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Amid the US-China controversy and the consequential ban on Huawei, the Chinese government is planning to build a new operating system. The news was first reported by The Epoch Times (via ZDNet), citing the Canadian military magazine Kanwa Asian Defense as the source. As per the magazine’s report on May 11, the new OS is […]
Intel Corp., Broadcom Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Xilinx Inc., etc., have also refused to supply critical components and software to Huawei. The US has decided to deny Huawei Technologies Co., a major Chinese tech firm, access to US technology to prevent Huawei’s growing influence in the country’s consumer device market. Immediately after the news about the […]
TeamViewer has only confirmed now that Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the company in 2016. The Germany-based company behind the world-famous remote desktop software TeamViewer has confirmed that in 2016 TeamViewer software was compromised. The confirmation comes right after the report published by Der Speigel, a German newspaper, regarding a successful cyber attack on TeamViewer. While […]
The administration of President Donald Trump has banned telecommunications companies operating in the U.S. from using technology and devices developed in some foreign countries after considering that some of these products represent a serious national security risk, report specialists in cybersecurity. This prohibition applies to purchases by U.S. companies in the future, although the cybersecurity […]
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is advocating for the company’s plan to build a censored search engine for China, codenamed as ‘Project Dragonfly.’ In an interview with the BBC, Schmidt confirmed that he was never part of the decision to build a censored version of Google in China. And even though Google has put […]
Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and exploit them to attack American private firms and allies across the globe. In the new report published by The New […]
Avengers: End Game has been leaked online because why not? Marvel’s latest and perhaps the most anticipated flick ever to be released Avengers: End Game has become an object of controversy lately as hackers and cybercriminals are trying their best to benefit from the movie’s widespread, intense hype. Last week, Marvel fans were requested to […]
The app is called WiFi Finder – connect to hotspots. WiFi Finder, a popular and widely downloaded hotspot finder app designed for Android devices has been identified to be exposing passwords of WiFi networks for over two million networks. The exposed database was identified by GDI Foundation member and security researcher Sanyam Jain. According to […]
Global e-commerce giant Amazon is closing down its online marketplace in China this year by July 18. The online retailer now plans to focus on selling overseas products to Chinese customers rather than local goods. Amazon says it will keep running other businesses in China, such as Amazon Web Services and Kindle e-books. The company will […]
China is one of the countries where the internet is heavily censored, thanks to the country’s Great Firewall. Users cannot access social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Home-grown services like WeChat are used for messaging apps and social networking, but they are monitored as well. Amidst no means to vent out their anger, Chinese IT workers have resorted to GitHub […]
According to the vulnerability testing specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the agency responsible for economic planning in China added any “activity related to virtual currency mining” (including the Bitcoin extraction process) to a list of activities subject to be shut down by the Chinese government. The agency claims that the cause […]
The German pharmaceutical company Bayer claims to have contained a cyberattack possibly carried out by Chinese hackers. According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the company reported that it faced a possible data breach and interruptions in its regular operations. A spokesman for Bayer states that the […]
According to experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute, just a few months after Grindr, a gay dating app, was bought by a Chinese company, the U.S. government began investigating this negotiation arguing for national security reasons. The Foreign Investment Committee, a group led by the Treasury Department […]
Another day, another data breach; this time, Victor Gevers, a Dutch security researcher from GDI Foundation has discovered a publically exposed database containing a massive trove of highly sensitive data of millions of Chinese women. According to Gevers, the database which is open for anyone to access contains personal details of 1.8 million women from China […]
Last year, Google dropped plans to launch its censored search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, in China. But it seems like Google’s employees aren’t convinced and they investigated to find out otherwise. According to a report by The Intercept, some of the Google employees kept a close eye on various codes stored in computers and found out […]
The IT security researchers at Sixgill‘s threat intelligence team have identified an “experienced threat actor” on the dark web selling access to the admin panel of a Chinese rail control system. This access would enable criminals to manipulate train control systems, affecting over one million residents living in the urban core of Hubei Province. Sixgill, an […]
The leaked information was in a database belonging to a company dedicated to the development of security and surveillance software Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report the finding of an unsecured database, an incident that exposed personal details of more than 2 million Chinese residents. The Chinese […]
China is often held responsible for conducting surveillance campaigns and espionage activities discreetly not only on its citizens but governments across continents. Now, a misconfigured facial recognition database has emerged that confirms the allegations put forth against China. Reportedly, a Dutch security researcher has exposed database that contains exclusive details about the deep-rooted surveillance tactics […]
A 43-year-old software manager of a Chinese bank managed to withdraw over 7 million yuan (more than $1 million) from ATMs of the same bank by exploiting a ridiculous loophole. According to the South China Morning Post, Huaxia Bank’s system didn’t properly record the withdrawals made around midnight — allowing it to vend out cash without deducting the amount […]
The defendant must comply with a sentence of more than 10 years in prison A Chinese software manager was convicted of stealing around $1M USD exploiting a known vulnerability in the Huaxia Bank ATM system. According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the 43-year-old man worked at […]
Attackers threaten to collapse users’ mining platforms Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report the finding of a new ransomware variant especially targeted against Bitcoin mining platforms. So far, most known infection cases have been reported in China, as this is the country with the most cryptocurrency mining […]