Security News

Arrest of Tech Exec Signals Tougher US Stand on China Tech Firms
2018-12-06 18:58

The arrest of a top executive of tech giant Huawei at the request of US authorities signals a toughening stand in Washington on dealing with Chinese tech firms amid longstanding concerns over...

New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs
2018-12-04 19:33

A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack, and the number is...

US Says China Hacking Increasing Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting
2018-11-21 15:25

BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. government report ahead of a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping accuses China of stepping up hacking aimed at stealing American technology as a tariff...

Did China Spy on Australian Defense Websites?
2018-11-21 12:03

One Answer Is Clear: Network Re-Routing Raises SuspicionsFor nearly 30 months, Internet traffic going to Australian Department of Defence websites flowed through China Telecom data centers, an odd...

Surge in China Theft of Australia Company Secrets: Report
2018-11-20 06:48

China has sharply escalated cyberattacks on Australian companies this year in a "constant, significant effort" to steal intellectual property, according to a report published Tuesday. read more

China's Hack Attacks: An Economic Espionage Campaign
2018-11-16 06:18

An analysis of China's surging hack attacks as part of an economic espionage campaign leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also: Choosing the right MSSP, plus an analysis of the...

US China-watcher warns against Middle Kingdom tech dominance
2018-11-15 08:01

5G, IoT, and tech supply chains should go under spotlight Another US government panel has warned of the dangers of over-reliance on Chinese tech vendors: the US-China Economic and Security Review...

Google and Cloudfare traffic diverted to China… do we need to panic?
2018-11-13 14:56

A brief outage on Monday diverted traffic to providers such as Google and Cloudflare via China - was it a blunder or a hack?

Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff
2018-11-09 03:20

Everything little thing Xi does is magic, everything Xi do just turns me intrusion alarms on Three years after the governments of America and China agreed not to hack corporations in each other's...

China Telecom Constantly Misdirects Internet Traffic
2018-11-07 15:03

Over the past years, China Telecom has been constantly misdirecting Internet traffic through China, researchers say.  read more