Security News

We are shocked to learn that China, an oppressive surveillance state, puts spyware on foreigners' phones
2019-07-02 19:55

Border police accused of loading visitors' mobiles up with snoop app in Muslim area Authorities in a tumultuous region of China have been accused of loading spyware onto the phones of people visiting.…

Trump Hints at Softer Stance on China's Huawei
2019-07-01 12:52

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that US companies could sell equipment to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, indicating a potentially softer position on a key sticking point in the US-China...

Hey China, while you're in all our servers, you mind fixing this support ticket? IBM, HPE, Tata CS, Fujitsu, NTT and their customers pwned
2019-06-26 22:20

Oh no Xi didn't! Fresh details emerge on mega-hack Fresh details have emerged revealing just how deeply Chinese government hackers plundered HPE, IBM, DXC, Fujitsu, Tata, and others, stealing...

Telegram CEO Fingers China State Actors for DDoS Attack
2019-06-13 15:04

Durov took to Twitter to hint that Beijing tried to take Telegram offline to disrupt the Hong Kong protests.

Telegram Suffers 'Powerful DDoS Attack' From China During Hong Kong Protests
2019-06-13 10:48

Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack...

Telegram Hit by Cyber-attack, CEO Points to HK Protests, China
2019-06-13 05:02

Encrypted messaging service Telegram suffered a major cyber-attack that appeared to originate from China, the company's CEO said Thursday, linking it to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. read more

China Telecom Routes European Traffic to Its Network for Two Hours
2019-06-10 13:30

For two hours last week, a BGP route leak resulted in large portions of European Internet traffic being routed through China Telecom’s network. read more

Spain Extradites 94 Taiwanese to China on Phone Scam Charges
2019-06-07 13:19

Spain has extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, drawing protest from Taiwan's government. The suspects arrived Friday morning at Beijing airport on a...

You go that way, we'll go Huawei: China Computer Federation kicks back at IEEE in tit-for-tat spat
2019-05-31 11:55

Now they're withdrawing co-operation too Following disquiet over the IEEE's decision to block Huawei-linked researchers from doing various academic tasks, a Chinese computer research body has...

Senator: US govt staff may be sending their smartphone web traffic 'wrapped in a bow' to Russia, China via VPNs
2019-05-30 19:49

No policy to stop use of dodgy foreign network providers. You'd hope common sense would prevail, but... US government workers may be placing America's national security at risk as there is no...