Tag Archives: Internet Security

• China forces tourists to install an app that steals data 3 July 2019 | David Reid This post has no comments yet

  Police in China are secretly installing spy apps on phones of visitors to the country that can extract emails, texts and address contacts, according to a cross-media investigation. ...

• Facebook shares plunge, Mark Zuckerberg loses $15 billion 26 July 2018 | Vibhuti Sharma, Munsif Vengattil This post has one comment

  Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took a more than $15-billion hit on Thursday, as the social media company suffered the biggest one-day wipeout in US stock market. ...

• Chinese hackers tried to take down Tibetan social networking website 3 January 2016 | Wang Wei This post has no comments yet

  Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy activists, are being repeatedly targeted by persistent Cyber Attacks by Chinese State-sponsored hackers. ...

• Chinese hackers spying on Tibetan groups in India for years, experts say 21 August 2015 | James Griffiths This post has no comments yet

  Chinese crackers are believed to be targeting Tibetan exile groups in India for at least four years, despite China denying involvement in cracking. ...

• China deploys new weapon for online censorship in form of “Great Cannon” 11 April 2015 | Andrea Peterson This post has no comments yet

  The Great Cannon likely could also be used to deliver malicious code to any computer visiting a Web site based in China that does not use encryption. ...

• Thank Snowden: Internet industry now considers intelligence community an adversary, not a partner 13 February 2015 This post has no comments yet

  The whole issue of increasing encryption by the tech companies has been left off the official schedule of the White House cybersecurity summit. ...

• Internet titans shine light on secret US data requests 4 February 2014 | Glenn Chapman This post has no comments yet

  Internet titans eager to regain the trust of users for the first time on Monday provided insight into numbers of secret requests for user data made by the US government. ...

• NSA snooping ‘illegal, violates privacy’ 24 January 2014 | Rob Lever This post has no comments yet

  A watchdog panel concluded Thursday that bulk data collection by the United States is illegal and should be stopped, prompting praise from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. ...

• NSA tracks mobile phones daily around the world 5 December 2013 | Daniel De Luce This post has no comments yet

  The National Security Agency is collecting billions of records on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported, citing documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. ...

• US intercepts Google, Yahoo to collect personal data 31 October 2013 This post has no comments yet

  The US National Security Agency has tapped into key communications links from Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. ...