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Oh no, Xi didn't! Chinese spymaster cuffed in Belgium, yoinked to US on aerospace snoop rap
2018-10-11 00:17

Xu can play at this espionage game, Feds allege US prosecutors have unsealed charges against a collared Chinese national, accusing him of stealing trade secrets from American aerospace companies.…

Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems
2018-10-10 11:21

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" (summary here). The upshot won't be a...

Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew
2018-10-10 11:17

Google's closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.

US may have by far the world's biggest military budget but it's not showing in security
2018-10-10 00:30

GAO report finds more holes than a Swiss cheese, and very little hope for improvement If you were worried about the state of US military security systems you might not want to read the latest...

Don't make us pay compo for employee data breach, Morrisons begs UK court
2018-10-09 13:02

Beaks ponder first-of-a-kind data protection case Lawyers for supermarket chain Morrisons today urged the UK Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier judgment that made the company partly liable for...

The US National Cyber Strategy
2018-10-09 11:01

Last month the White House released the "National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America. I generally don't have much to say about these sorts of documents. They're filled with broad...

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Super Micro Trojan: US and UK Back Apple and Amazon Denials
2018-10-08 12:48

Government Agencies Have 'No Reason to Doubt' Supply Chain Tampering RefutationU.S. and U.K. government agencies have said they have "no reason to doubt" strong denials issued by Amazon and Apple...

UK, US Security Agencies Deny Investigating Chinese Spy Chips
2018-10-08 05:24

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have denied investigating the presence of Chinese spy chips in Supermicro servers, as claimed by a...

Report: Chinese Spy Chip Backdoored US Defense, Tech Firms
2018-10-05 09:18

If Accurate, Bloomberg Report Would Mark a New Era of Mass Hardware CompromiseDid the Chinese government pull off one of the most secretive hardware hacks of all time? That's what information...

US government charges seven Russians with Fancy bear hacks
2018-10-05 01:30

Largely pointless, since they're never going to stand trial In what's turning into International Cyber-Attribution Week, a US Federal grand jury has indicted seven Russian military intelligence...