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Bulgaria has extradited a Russian indicted by a US court for mounting a complex hacking scheme to the United States, the Russian embassy in Washington said.
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Facebook has removed more than 500 pages, groups and accounts originating in Russia for engaging in what the social network called "coordinated inauthentic behavior."
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A Portuguese hacker said by his lawyers to have played a pivotal role in the Football Leaks whistleblower website is fighting extradition from Hungary to Portugal on charges of extortion.
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US authorities are in the "advanced" stages of a criminal probe that could result in an indictment of Chinese technology giant Huawei, a report said.
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Singapore's privacy watchdog imposed fines of Sg$1 million on Integrated Health Information Systems and SingHealth over a cyber-attack that saw health records of about 1.5 million people.
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US authorities on charged eight people in a scheme to trade on and profit from stolen corporate information hacked from a government database, court papers showed.
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Kaspersky Lab helped the US NSA spy agency uncover one of its worst-ever security breaches -- one year before the US banned the company's products for government use.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that his country led the world in cyber defence, after a report that an unnamed nation planned to meddle in its upcoming general election.
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Vietnam is saying that Facebook failed to take down pages allegedly calling for anti-government activities, citing requests from the Ministry of Information and Communications.
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German authorities say a 20-year-old hacker had confessed to stealing and leaking private data from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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German police have arrested a 20-year-old suspect in the case of private data stolen from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, and published online.
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The National Counterintelligence and Security Center began sending out detailed advisories to companies around the country to show them how to guard against cyber-incursions.
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The US tech industry is weathering a crisis of confidence over data protection and a difficult geopolitical situation, with record sales expected in 2019, say organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have fallen victim to a massive online leak of private data.
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A law requiring internet companies in Vietnam to remove content communist authorities deem to be against the state came into effect Tuesday, in a move critics called "a totalitarian model of information control".
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Over the past five years Aleph Networks has indexed 1.4 billion links and 450 million documents across some 140,000 dark web sites.
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A malware attack that appears to have originated outside the US delayed the hardcopy distribution of several major newspapers, according to a report.
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Personal details of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in the South have been leaked in a hacking case, officials said, exposing them to potential threats from the North.
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Mark Karpeles, former head of collapsed bitcoin exchange MtGox, apologised for losses that bankrupted the firm but insisted he was innocent of charges including embezzlement at closing arguments in his Tokyo trial.
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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei expects to see a 21 percent rise in revenue for 2018 despite a year of "unfair treatment" which saw its products banned in several countries over security concerns.
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The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns.
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France's data protection agency fined Uber 400,000 euros ($460,000) over a 2016 data breach that exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide.
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The US Justice Department on announced the indictment of two Chinese government hackers who allegedly targeted 45 companies and agencies in a dozen countries, which US officials said showed Beijing had not fulfilled its pledge to stop such actions.
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Hackers apparently connected to China accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables, the New York Times reported Wednesday, in the latest embarrassing data breach to hit a major international organisation.
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Huawei defends its global ambitions and network security in the face of Western fears that the Chinese telecom giant could serve as a Trojan horse for Beijing's security apparatus.
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