Security News

US Warns Chinese Drones May Steal Data: Report
2019-05-21 11:34

Washington has warned that Chinese-made drones could be giving spy agencies in Beijing "unfettered access" to stolen data, according to a report in American media. The Department of Homeland...

DHS Reportedly Warns of Chinese-Made Drones Stealing Data
2019-05-20 21:48

Drones May Be Sending Data Back to China, According to News ReportsThe Department of Homeland Security is warning that Chinese-made drones could be sending sensitive data back to their...

Report Reveals TeamViewer Was Breached By Chinese Hackers In 2016
2019-05-17 18:03

The German software company behind TeamViewer, one of the most popular software in the world that allows users to access and share their desktops remotely, was reportedly compromised in 2016, the...

Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman
2019-05-17 14:28

We read this week's Huawei happenings and filleted it so you don't have to Roundup Huawei has been kicked by a US national emergency proclamation hitting "foreign" gear, spent some cash in France,...

Researchers Link Disparate Chinese Hacking Groups
2019-05-15 20:27

The Chinese government appears to have centralized control over several hacking groups previously believed to be separate threat actors, the BlackBerry Cylance Threat Intelligence security...

Reverse Engineering a Chinese Surveillance App
2019-05-13 11:37

Human Rights Watch has reverse engineered an app used by the Chinese police to conduct mass surveillance on Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. The details are fascinating, and chilling. Boing Boing post....

Chinese Men Charged With Hacking Health Insurer Anthem
2019-05-10 13:18

Data of 78.8 Million Individuals Was Encrypted, Sent to China, US AllegesTwo Chinese men have been indicted on charges related to the breach of health insurer Anthem, which saw the personal...

U.S. Charges Chinese Hackers Over Massive 2015 Anthem Breach
2019-05-10 12:27

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against members of an “extremely sophisticated hacking group operating in China” in connection with the massive 2015 data breach that...

Uncle Sam accuses Chinese pair of romping through Anthem's servers for almost a year
2019-05-09 23:30

Fujie charged with killing them softly with his scripts. And by them, we mean, the healthcare giant's computers US prosecutors today formally accused two people of being part of a Chinese hacking...

US indicts a Chinese hacking crew that romped through Anthem's servers for almost a year
2019-05-09 23:30

Fujie accused of killing them softly with his scripts The US Department of Justice has announced indictments against two members of a China-based hacking crew it says was behind one of the biggest...