Citing unexplained “intelligence data,” an unnamed “senior intelligence official,” and an anonymous “privacy security official,” Bloomberg News claims that iBahn—the company that runs Internet services for a bunch of hotel chains—has been hacked by the Chinese. The rest of the story is p...
The Chinese homophone for “library dragging”, the term used for hacking sites and exfiltrating their data, roughly translates to “trouser removal”, which has led to the common use of “pantsless data ” to refer to hacked databases. Within Chinese criminal communities, the term “pantsless...
Outlook email service in China was hacked by the country's censorship authority, an internet watchdog has claimed, as the government continues its crackdown on U.S. technology giants. Greatfire.org, which monitors censorship in China, said that Microsoft's servers were subject to a so-called ...
A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind DVRs and internet-connected cameras, said on Sunday that security...
As one Chinese service provider described to me, “Amazon turns a blind eye to the leaking of competitor data from employees. It doesn't hurt them.” Amazon bills itself as the “Earth's Most Customer-Centric company” which often comes at the expense of sellers. However, seller interests ...
Why do big corporations spending millions on cybersecurity keep getting hacked? Individuals & organizations are acting individually to protect themselves in this cyberwar, whereas hackers have banded together to become stronger. At CrowdSec, we developed a solution to outnumber hackers through a collabo...
If a VPN’s parent company is untrustworthy, including having weak security or actively engaged in malicious activities, it can be a big problem. This can lead to users’ data being stolen and sold on the black market, or even having their computers hacked into. ...
Further is the question of if you have an order for 1000 boards for a cloud provider, what percentage actually need to be poisoned? With a little thought you can work out it could be well below 1% for certain components… As with the US and UK IC entities, the Chinese IC would have ...
Chinese Firm Admits Its Hacked DVRs and Cameras Were Behind Largest DDoS Attack# More such attacks are expected to happen and will not stop until IoT manufacturers take the security of these Internet-connected devices seriously. One such IoT electronic manufacturer is Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai ...