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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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

...And more from the world of infosec this week Roundup Here's a quick catch-up of all things infosec beyond what we've already reported this week.…

Dutch intelligence services are investigating Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by leaving a "back door" to data of customers of major telecoms firms, a report said Thursday. read more

US regulators on Thursday denied a request by China Mobile to operate in the US market and provide international telecommunications services, saying links to the Chinese government pose a national...