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a 31-Count Indictment Filed in The US District Court Monday Charged Chinese Hackers
May 21, 2014A 31-count indictment filed in the US District Court Monday charged Chinese hackers with gaining illegal access to a handful of Pittsburgh-area industrial firms, including US Steel. The charges against five officers in the Chinese military ...
Tags: Steel, US District Court
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Government Is to Review Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre
Jul 23, 2013The government is to review Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (the Cell) and will report its findings later in the year. The Chinese telecommunications firm, which has flourished on a global scale in recent years, has been ...
Tags: Computer Products, huawei
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Google Is to Enter "The Battle for The Living Room" with Its Own Games Console
Jul 1, 2013Internet giant Google is to enter "the battle for the living room" with its own games console based on Android, which will connect wirelessly via Bluetooth to Google Glass, smart watches and other wireless devices. The aim of the ...
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A Top Chinese Official Claims to Have 'Mountains of Data'
Jun 5, 2013A top Chinese official claims to have ‘mountains of data' showing evidence of hacking originating from the US. Huang Chengqing, director of the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China ...
Tags: Cyber Attacks, China, US
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Governments Routinely Use The Internet to Spy on People and Organisations
May 31, 2013Governments routinely use the internet to spy on people and organisations, and to steal sensitive and classified information - and we'd all better get used to it. That is the message from Chinese' networking company Huawei's head of ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Jeremy Hammond Pleaded Guilty to The Charges and Now Faces 10 Years in Jail
May 30, 2013Jeremy Hammond, the hacker accused of breaking into global foreign-intelligence company Stratfor's systems and stealing information later posted to Wikileaks, has pleaded guilty to the charges and now faces 10 years in jail. Caught in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google Mounted by Hackers Connected to China's People Liberation Army
May 28, 2013CSO - In January 2010, Google shocked the cyber world by confessing it had been the target of an advanced persistent threat lasting months and mounted by hackers connected to China's People Liberation Army. "[We] have evidence to suggest ...
Tags: Computer Products
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Designs for More Than Two Dozen Advanced U.S. Weapon Systems
May 28, 2013Designs for more than two dozen advanced U.S. weapon systems, including missile defenses, combat aircraft and ships, were reportedly accessed by Chinese hackers. The systems were listed in a previously undisclosed section of a report ...
Tags: US, Chinese Hackers, Weapons System
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China's Remarkable Success at Infiltrating U.S. Government Shouldn't Be Seen as a Sign
May 22, 2013China's remarkable success at infiltrating U.S. government, military and corporate networks in recent years shouldn't be seen as a sign that the country is gaining on the U.S. lead in cybertechnology expertise. State-sponsored hacking ...
Tags: Computer Products, Hackers, networks
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On Friday,Microsoft Published a Security Advisory That Acknowledged The Bug
May 7, 2013Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company's most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulnerability has been used in active ...
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A Chinese Hacking Ring Has Been Stealing Data From Players of More Than 30 MMO
Apr 15, 2013A Chinese hacking ring, which has been active for four years, has been stealing data from players of more than 30 massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing games. That's according to research by security software vendor Kaspersky ...
Tags: Online Games, Computer Products
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The Former Chief Scientist Defense Contractor Has Been Sentenced to a Year in Prison
Mar 20, 2013The former chief scientist at a Kentucky defense contractor has been sentenced to a year in prison for buying pirated software from Russian and Chinese hackers and using it to design components for military helicopters. Wronald Best, 55, ...
Tags: pirated software, software, computer code
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95% of All Attacks on Enterprise Networks Are The Result of Successful Spear Phishing
Mar 8, 2013According to Allen Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks are the result of successful spear phishing. In other words, somebody received an email and either clicked on a link or opened ...
Tags: SANS Institute, enterprise network, IT exec
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BitDefender Has Traced The Cyber-Espionage Malware "Miniduke" Back to June 2011
Mar 6, 2013Romanian security company BitDefender today said it has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered. BitDefender found the malware by digging through its ...
Tags: BitDefender, MiniDuke, espionage malware
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A New Report Traces a Large Cybersecurity Threat Group to China's People's Liberation Army
Feb 21, 2013A new report traces a large cybersecurity threat group to China's People's Liberation Army, specifically a unit that goes under the cover name "Unit 61398." Security company Mandiant said in a report released Tuesday that an Advanced ...
Tags: Report, Cyberspying Group, China's Army