Suggests buying local tech to avoid infosec worries China’s Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea.... [...]

Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong UPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.... [...]

PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more Asia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an orbit beyond Pluto’s, and scientists think its …

It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.... [...]

Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITOI), the government body that develops and implements IT services for the country, is looking for suppliers of cloud computing.... [...]

First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register 's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.... [...]

Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.... [...]

Frequent flyers’ info takes flight Australian airline Qantas on Wednesday revealed it fell victim to a cyberattack that saw information describing six million customers stolen.... [...]

PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more! Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.... [...]

Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’ The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks.... [...]

Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US operations to a local company or stop operating …

PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Asia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.... [...]

Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more! Asia in brief China's space agency has revealed its Tianwen 2 probe has unfurled a "solar wing."... [...]

The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Thursday published a report in which it …

To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability.... [...]

CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator.... [...]

Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.... [...]

Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements Computex Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to Shawn Chang, Head of Go-To-Market for the …

PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto Asia In Brief China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity scheme that will mean they can use one …

PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more Asia In Brief Chinese company Guoxing Aerospace last launched a dozen satellites, each packing a 744 TOPS of computing power, in the first step towards creating an orbiting constellation of …

No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale' Patch Tuesday has rolled around again, but if you don't rush to implement the feast of fixes it delivered, your security won't be any worse off in the short term – and may improve …

Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a government initiative.... [...]

Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.... [...]

PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! Asia in brief India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.... [...]

They’re sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting AI-generated material to popular Subreddit r/changemyview in the name of science.... [...]