Security News

Amnesty Says Hong Kong Office Hit by China-linked Cyber Attack
2019-04-25 13:43

Amnesty International's Hong Kong office has been hit by a years-long cyberattack from hackers with known links to the Chinese government, the rights group said Thursday. read more

China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
2019-04-15 11:30

Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks at undersea communications cables:...

Woman from China, with malware in tow, illegally entered Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
2019-04-03 00:30

Event raises serious questions about security practices of the US Secret Service.

Hey, what's Mandarin for 'WTF is going on?' Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed
2019-03-22 06:56

Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese...

China Does Not Ask Firms to Spy on Others: Premier
2019-03-15 17:35

China will "never" ask its firms to spy on other nations, Premier Li Keqiang said Friday, amid US warnings that Chinese telecommunications behemoth Huawei poses security risks. read more

US Warns of Sophisticated Cyberattacks From Russia, China
2019-03-14 13:50

Cyberattacks from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly sophisticated and, until recently, were done with little concern for the consequences, the top Pentagon cyber leaders told a...

How China Exploits Social Media to Influence American Public
2019-03-08 14:37

The growth of Russia's attempts to manipulate American public opinion since 2015 is well known and documented. At heart, it is basic political propaganda -- which is an accepted tool of...

China's Huawei Sues US Over Federal Ban on Its Products
2019-03-07 05:41

Tech giant Huawei on Thursday opened a legal front in its counter-offensive against US warnings that it could aid Chinese intelligence services, filing suit to overturn a US law that bars federal...

FBI's Wray on China's Counterintelligence Capabilities
2019-03-05 22:33

At RSA Conference, Director Addresses Nation-State ThreatsSpeaking at the RSA Conference 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray noted that when he took on the job two years ago, he was "shocked" by...

FBI boss: Never mind Russia and social media, China ransacks US biz for blueprints, secrets at 'surprisingly' huge scale
2019-03-05 20:42

'Espionage and criminal investigations ... almost all of which lead back to Beijing' RSA While Russian hackers, Kremlin-backed or otherwise, grab the headlines, China remains the biggest...