Europe has pressed the US for greater detail on the Prism surveillance programme and was told that data collection on Europeans was not conducted in "bulk" but only in cases of strong suspicion of...
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- Jun 20, 2013
- Updated: 7:28am
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16 Jun 2013
Bloomberg yesterday quoted a source as saying that following an attack on his company by Chinese hackers in 2010, Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, was provided with highly sensitive US government...
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11 Jun 2013
Many people around the world really liked Barack Obama when he was first elected US President in 2008. Smart, handsome and genuinely appealing, what was there not to like? But now people are...
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11 Jun 2013
The recently reported Citadel botnet is estimated to have infected up to five million computers around the world and stolen more than US$500 million from bank accounts. Worryingly, Hong Kong is...
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9 Jun 2013
US President Barack Obama has ordered senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyberattacks, a top secret presidential directive...
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9 Jun 2013
Hong Kong's defence against malicious activity online is the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team (HKCERT ), set up in 2001 and managed by the Hong Kong Productivity Council. Its main role...
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Obama described the contentious cyberissue as "uncharted waters". He said he and Xi had discussed cybermatters only broadly during their first round of talks, but pledged that a fuller discussion...
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Beijing's top internet security official says he has "mountains of data" pointing to extensive US hacking aimed at China. But he said it would be irresponsible to blame Washington for such attacks...
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US President Barack Obama will tell Chinese President Xi Jinping at a California summit this week that Washington considers Beijing responsible for any cyber attacks launched from Chinese soil and...
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The US national security clearance of SoftBank Corp's US$20.1 billion acquisition of Sprint Nextel Corp imposes the first restrictions on a third-party supplier over claims of Chinese spying.
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China’s Defence Ministry dismissed as ridiculous on Thursday a US report that Chinese hackers have gained access to designs of more than two dozen major US weapons systems, saying the country...
8:03PM
Suspected Chinese hackers yesterday defaced the website of the Philippines News Agency, officials said, a possible repeat of cyberattacks last year also blamed on China during a territorial row....
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