Western companies are doing big business in China, but storm clouds lie on the horizon. According to a New York Times report, new banking security rules approved in the People’s Republic… Read more »
Chinese army hackers apparently caused more than $100 million worth of damage to U.S. Department of Defense networks, according to NSA research detailed in documents from the Edward Snowden cache. On… Read more »
The United States has asked China for help in blocking cyberattacks emanating from North Korea, officials told CNN and the New York Times in the wake of the attack on Sony… Read more »
The Chinese web giant Baidu will buy a stake in Uber worth up to $600 million, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg. The ride-booking company, which raised $1.2 billion earlier this… Read more »
The hosting of a “World Internet Conference” tech industry talking shop in censorship-happy China was always going to raise eyebrows, but this is classic: According to reports by TechCrunch, the Wall… Read more »
GreatFire.org, which monitors the activities of China’s monolithic web censorship mechanism, claims HSBC’s Akamai-using corporate banking portal has falled victim to the Great Firewall. Read more »
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have identified a novel and nasty strain of malware that steals device and user data — but they reckon its full functionality is yet to… Read more »
A Chinese government spokeswoman has strenuously denied accusations of state involvement in a widespread eavesdropping attack on iCloud users, despite evidence that the attacks took place in core infrastructure. Read more »
Most people are these days using browsers that support the much safer TLS web encryption protocol, but some aren’t, notably those still using Internet Explorer 6 — most of whom seem… Read more »
The privacy-friendly search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China, company CEO Gabriel Weinberg has told Tech in Asia. Weinberg said he was unsure when the blockade began, but Chinese censorship… Read more »