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Tag Archives: China
Google and Cloudfare traffic diverted to China… do we need to panic?
A brief outage on Monday diverted traffic to providers such as Google and Cloudflare via China – was it a blunder or a hack?
CIA’s secret online network unravelled with a Google search
The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.
US indicts alleged Chinese spies for hacking aerospace companies
The DOJ described five years of stealing turbofan engine designs that relied on insiders, state-sponsored hackers, phishing and malware.
Former Facebook security chief calls out Apple for privacy hypocrisy
Tim Cook’s warnings about an “industrial data complex” have been met with accusations of hypocrisy from Facebook’s former security supremo.
Apple and Amazon hacked by China? Here’s what to do (even if it’s not true)
Are major US companies really under attack from Chinese “zombie microchips” – and what should we do, whether it’s true or not?
Google employees protest work on censored search engine for China
Hundreds signed a letter raising concerns about the moral and ethical issues of Google helping China with its censorship.
Pentagon orders military exchanges to pull Chinese smartphones over security risks
Huawei and ZTE are already telephones non gratae, tied too close for comfort to the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army back home.
Budget Android manufacturer Blu settles with FTC over privacy fiasco
These are the phones that were calling home to Shanghai every 72 hours, with no opt-in or notice, to hand over a whole lot of PII.
Jaywalkers to be named, shamed and fined thanks to facial recognition
Thanks, no thanks, facial recognition and artificial intelligence mashup.
