Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry. One piece of malware recently found on an iPhone belonging to Ayman Nour, a dissident and 2005 Egyptian presidential candidate who subsequently […]
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In a fierce attempt to expose affiliates linked to China’s Xinjiang surveillance accusations, The Washington Post publicized on Tuesday a hidden aspect revealing Huawei’s association in persecuting against the region’s ethnic minorities. The leaked PowerPoint presentations acquired by the news outlet revealed that it had obtained the documents through a public Huawei site before being removed by […]
Proposed British rules aimed at cracking down on harmful online content should be beefed up with tougher measures like making it illegal to send unsolicited graphic images, requiring porn sites to ensure children can’t gain access and moving faster to hold tech executives criminally liable for failing to uphold the regulations, lawmakers said in a […]
A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organizations around the world. “The internet’s on fire right now,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. “People are scrambling to patch,” […]
Chinese hackers, likely state-sponsored, have been broadly targeting government and private-sector organizations across Southeast Asia, including those closely involved with Beijing on infrastructure development projects, according to a report released Wednesday by a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company. Specific targets included the Thai prime minister’s office and the Thai army, the Indonesian and Philippine navies, Vietnam’s […]
Some high hopes are born between Verizon and AT&T that new bands of C-band cellular radio spectrum will help bring the 5G hype closer to reality; however, the large mid-band 5G rollout could have a side effect. As such, the side effects of the large mid-band 5G rollout include when planes rely on radio altimeters […]
A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become. The incident at Amazon Web Services mostly affected the eastern U.S., but still impacted everything […]
The elite Russian state hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign hardly eased up this year, managing plenty of infiltrations of U.S. and allied government agencies and foreign policy think tanks with consummate craft and stealth, a leading cybersecurity firm reported. Also Monday, Microsoft announced that it had disrupted the cyber-spying of a state-backed […]
The Pentagon intends to work better with private industry to develop high-tech systems and to strengthen relations with allies in the Indo-Pacific region in order to maintain a competitive edge over China, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday. Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, Austin said recent military activity and aggressive moves […]
Famous dating app CEO, Renate Nyborg, revealed to Reuters that Tinder is seeking to expand its features to redefine the frontiers between online and offline universes by joining the metaverse league. In an interview with the news hub, Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg revealed that the company is releasing its Explore in-app characteristic, with cooperative events […]