Security Experts:
Recent articles by AFP
-
An Israeli court Monday rejected a bid by rights group Amnesty International to revoke the export license of spyware firm NSO Group over hacking allegations.
-
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei urges Britain not to rush into taking any costly decision to phase out its equipment from the UK's 5G network because of US sanctions.
-
China's ambassador to Britain on Monday warned that London faced a risk to its international reputation if it blocked Huawei from the nation's 5G network.
-
China urged France Monday to guarantee a "fair and just" environment for its companies after Paris decided to restrict licenses for telecom operators using 5G technology from Huawei.
-
China's Huawei is not totally banned from France's next-generation 5G wireless market, but French operators using them will only get limited licences.
-
A US Senate panel Thursday approved legislation aimed at combatting online child exploitation as civil liberties activists warned the measure could lead to an array of constitutional and privacy problems.
-
Morocco's prime minister has demanded Amnesty International provide evidence to support its allegations that Rabat used spyware to bug a journalist's phone.
-
European police shut down an encrypted phone network used by criminals after hacking into the provider's servers and monitoring customers' conversations.
-
TikTok denies sharing Indian users' data with the Chinese government, after New Delhi banned the wildly popular app in a sharp deterioration of relations with Beijing two weeks after a deadly border clash.
-
India has banned 59 Chinese mobile apps, including the wildly popular TikTok and WeChat, over national security and privacy concerns two weeks after a deadly Himalayan border clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
-
Australia unveiled the "largest-ever" boost in cybersecurity spending, days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke out about a wave of state-sponsored attacks suspected to have been carried out by China.
-
Police in Germany have arrested 32 people and detained 11 after nationwide raids targeting users of an illegal online platform.
-
Morocco says it is investigating a journalist for receiving "foreign funding" for "intelligence services" days after rights group Amnesty alleged the government had used Israeli spyware to bug his phone.
-
A top German court has ordered Facebook to stop merging data collected through its Whatsapp and Instagram subsidiaries or other websites unless users explicitly agree, in a legal victory for competition authorities.
-
Microsoft president Brad Smith on Tuesday said Europe was the global leader on setting rules for big tech, two years after the EU implemented the GDPR, its landmark data privacy law.
-
New Zealand police has frozen NZ$140 million (US$90 million) in assets linked to a Russian man accused of laundering money for organised crime using cyber currency.
-
Amnesty International says software developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group was used to attack a Moroccan journalist, the latest in a series of allegations against the company.
-
France's highest administrative authority on Friday dismissed a challenge by Google against a fine of 50 million euros ($56 million) for failing to provide adequate information on its data consent policies.
-
Australia's prime minister said Friday his country was under a broad cyberattack from a "state-based actor" targeting government, public services and businesses, with suspicions falling on China.
-
Tech giants love to portray themselves as forces for good and as the United States was gripped by anti-racism protests a number of them publicly disavowed selling controversial facial recognition technology to police forces.
-
Amnesty International warns that contact-tracing technology developed to contain the novel coronavirus threatens users' privacy, highlighting Bahraini, Kuwaiti and Norwegian apps as "among the most dangerous".
-
The US is letting blacklisted Chinese technology giant Huawei back into the fold when it comes to companies working together to set standards for 5G telecom networks.
-
Norway's health authorities have suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of the new coronavirus after the national data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy.
-
Anomali found bogus "contact tracing"apps deployed in Armenia, Brazil, India, Colombia, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kyrgystan, Russia and Singapore, in some cases impersonating official government tracing applications.
-
Nintendo said that hackers breached 300,000 accounts since early April, gaining access to personal information such as birthdays and email addresses but not credit-card details.
Get the Daily Briefing
- Israel Court Rejects Amnesty Petition Against Spyware Firm NSO
- U.S. Secret Service Creates Cyber Fraud Task Force
- Russian Found Guilty of Hacking LinkedIn, Formspring, Dropbox
- Trump Confirms U.S. Launched Cyberattack on Russian Troll Farm in 2018
- Amazon Says Email to Employees Banning TikTok Was a Mistake
- Finding the Right Threat Intelligence Vendors
- Backdoors Identified in Tens of C-Data Fiber Broadband Devices
- Facebook Offering Big Rewards for Vulnerabilities in Hermes, Spark AR
- Google Updates Policies to Reject Ads for Spyware
- Zoom Working on Patch for Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows Client
Copyright © 2020 Wired Business Media. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy