March 29, 2019

Grindr up for sale amid US fears for Chinese-owned data

A US national security panel told Kunlun, that its ownership of Grindr constitutes a national security risk.

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March 21, 2019

FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes

According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.

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February 15, 2019

Chinese facial recognition database exposes 2.5m people

A company operating a facial recognition system in China has exposed millions of residents’ personal information online.

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December 13, 2018

Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false

Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tempered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users.

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November 29, 2018

Facial recognition traffic camera mistakes bus for famous woman

China's air conditioning business queen Dong Mingzhu was recently outed as a jaywalker - thanks to an ad on the side of a bus.

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November 26, 2018

That Black Mirror episode with the social ratings? It’s happening IRL

Not picking up after your dog will cost you 10 points, for example, in China's Black Mirror-esque plan to socially score citizens.

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November 15, 2018

France: Let’s make the internet safer! US: ‘How about NO?!’

Don't cry for us, Argentina: Critics saw potential for government meddling without court order, among other issues.

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November 13, 2018

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?

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November 06, 2018

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.

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