02 Aug

Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps

An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them

Author rabih
02 Aug

Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go

Interview Open source security biz Socket is extending its source code dependency checker, which previously addressed only JavaScript and Python, by adding support for checking

Author rabih
01 Aug

Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It’s utterly impractical

Boffins in Austria and Germany have devised a power-monitoring side-channel attack on modern computer chips that exposes sensitive data, but very slowly. The attack, referred

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01 Aug

Mattress maker Tempur Sealy says it isolated tech system to contain cyber burglary

® Tempur Sealy, among the world’s largest providers of bedding, has notified the Securities and Exchange Commission of a digital burglary by cyber crims that

Author rabih
01 Aug

World Wide Web Day: How to Protect Your Family Online

The first of August marks the celebration of World Wide Web Day – a day dedicated to the global network that powers our online activity,

Author rabih
01 Aug

Quantum computing: Will it break crypto security within a few years?

Current cryptographic security methods watch out – quantum computing is coming for your lunch. Source

Author rabih
01 Aug

US military battling cyber threats from within and without

The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who potentially gained access to crucial American computer networks and

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01 Aug

China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway

China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.

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31 Jul

White House: Losing Section 702 spy powers would be among ‘worst intelligence failures of our time’

The White House has weighed in on the Section 702 debate, urging lawmakers to reauthorize, “without new and operationally damaging restrictions,” the controversial snooping powers

Author rabih
31 Jul

Hikvision, Nvidia named in contract for ‘Uyghur detection’

Updated Video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was paid $6 million by the Chinese government last year to provide technology that could identify members of the

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31 Jul

Hikvision and Nvidia named in contract for Uyghur detection

Chinese video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was reportedly paid $6 million by Beijing last year to provide technology that could identify members of the nation’s

Author rabih
31 Jul

What would sustainable security even look like?

Opinion “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” fumed Admiral David Beatty during 1916’s Battle of Jutland. Fair enough: three of

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31 Jul

US senator victim-blames Microsoft for Chinese hack

Infosec in brief US senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) thinks it’s Microsoft’s fault that Chinese hackers broke into Exchange Online, and he wants three separate government

Author rabih
29 Jul

Florida man accused of hoarding America’s secrets faces fresh charges

Federal prosecutors have expanded their criminal case against a famous Floridian and his loyal minions for allegedly mishandling national security secrets and not being forthright

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29 Jul

Millions of people’s data stolen because web devs forget to check access perms

Personal, financial, and health information belonging to millions of folks has been stolen via a particular class of website vulnerability, say cybersecurity agencies in the

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28 Jul

FBI boss: Congress must renew Section 702 spy powers – that’s how we get nearly all our cyber intel

Nearly all of the FBI’s technical intelligence on malicious “cyber actors” in the first half of this year was obtained via Section 702 searches, according

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28 Jul

Chinese companies evade sanctions, fuel Moscow’s war on Ukraine, says report

Chinese companies, including state-owned defense companies, are evading tech sanctions and fueling Moscow’s war in Ukraine, according to a US report released on Thursday. US

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28 Jul

Is backdoor access oppressive? – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Bills granting access to end-to-end encrypted systems, opportunity for cybercriminals, abuse by authority, human rights, and tech companies leaving the UK? Source

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