It's a juicy market that welcomes foreign investment, National development boss reminds Tim Cook Senior Chinese government officials have urged Apple CEO Tim Cook to improve the security and privacy features of his company's products.... [...]
Executive order has loopholes for Uncle Sam's snoop tools and American-made code US president Joe Biden on Monday issued an executive order on the "prohibition on use by the United States government of commercial spyware that poses risks to national security" – a title that is not quite as simple …
Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades Eight very B-list celebrities have agreed to cough up fines after being accused of shilling a cryptocurrency without disclosing they were paid to do so, while the chap who apparently paid them has been charged with …
British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has fined McDonald's, British American Tobacco, and Samsung for privacy breaches.... [...]
CERT-In was told its six-hour notification requirement was a bad idea – now it knows just how bad India's rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities/... [...]
'Technological sovereignty is the key to sustainability' states Russian despot Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set themselves the goal of dominating the world of information technology.... [...]
Alleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar Google has suspended Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo from its Play store because versions of the software found elsewhere have included malware.... [...]
Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it …
Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom Italian automaker Ferrari has warned its well-heeled customers that their personal data may be at risk.... [...]
ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls Asia In Brief ByteDance, the Chinese developer of TikTok, "can no longer be accurately described as a private enterprise" and is instead intertwined with China's government, according to a report [PDF] submitted …
This one has it all: Donald Trump’s inner circle, a Beijing bot backlash, conspiracy theories, and more Meet the newest member of the crypto rogues' gallery: Ho Wan Kwok, aka Guo Wengui, aka Miles Guo, whom the US Department of Justice on Wednesday arrested over what investigators have …
Contractors left hanging while principals splurged on luxury goods Three of the principals of an Australian scheme that offered free payroll services to tech contractors have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Commonwealth and conspiring to deal with the proceeds of crime.... [...]
It’s not just another data breach when the victim oversees witness protection programs The US Marshals Service, the enforcement branch of the nation’s federal courts, has admitted a “major” breach of its information security defenses led to a ransomware infection and exfiltration of “law-enforcement sensitive information."... [...]
Infiltrators tried to create fake remote hands tasks, alter visitor lists Criminals have targeted datacenter operators in Singapore and China, tapping into their CCTV cameras, accessing their tenant lists and then attacking those customers.... [...]
Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution Antivirus software is supposed to be an important part of an organization's defense against the endless tide of malware.... [...]
Gone in 60 seconds using a USB-A plug and brute force instead of a key Korean car-makers Hyundai and Kia will issue software updates to some of their models after a method of stealing them circulated on TikTok, leading to many thefts and even some deaths.... [...]
State Dept already has one target, FBI is identifying sources of floating surveillance platform's components The Chinese surveillance balloon that drifted across the US last week looks set to spark a new round of sanctions against Middle Kingdom tech firms.... [...]
Phishing hooked internal documents, code, and some non-critical systems, but users' personal info safe Colorful web forum Reddit has revealed it has suffered a security breach.... [...]
You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel France's Computer Emergency Response Team has issued a Bulletin D'Alerte regarding a campaign to infect VMware’s ESXI hypervisor with ransomware.... [...]
Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors Collapsed crypto exchange FTX's Japanese outpost has told customers it will permit them to withdraw assets in February.... [...]
It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes South Korea's Ministry of Justice will create a "Virtual Currency Tracking System" to crack down on money laundering facilitated by cryptocurrencies, and rated the establishment of the facility among its priorities for the year.... [...]
Ongoing investigation into cloud storage attack finds customer data exfiltrated Remote access outfit GoTo has admitted that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key that allowed access to "a portion" of encrypted backup files.... [...]
PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more Asia In Brief India's IT minister has signaled he is willing to revisit a proposal to use government fact checkers to decide what is fake news that should be removed from social media.... [...]
Sixth snafu in five years? Crooks have this useless carrier on speed dial T-Mobile US today said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers.... [...]
Well whaddya know, the crypto ecosystem did the right thing by stiffing the WannaCry bandits Two cryptocurrency exchanges have frozen accounts identified as having been used by North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group.... [...]