China
China to spy through satellites over internet
Tesla company owner Elon Musk announced last year that his SpaceX Starlink internet service will reach to the remote places on continents like Africa and Asia providing connectivity to the people in rural areas who lack at least the basic communication services. China is all set to follow the same path as it has applied […]
Beijing Winter Olympics MY2022 mobile app filled with security vulnerabilities
Winter Olympics 2022 that are scheduled to be held in Beijing from next month i.e. in between February 4th to February 22nd, 2022 is in news for wrong reasons. The MY2022 app that needs to be installed by all the participants attending the event is reported to be filled with several security vulnerabilities, allowing hackers […]
China Data Security Law bars online companies with 1 million users
China has made a new amendment to its data security law that will bar companies with over 1 million users from publicly listing themselves on foreign soil-if they do not pass all the acts in the Cybersecurity review law In simple words, online companies that have over one million users should go through a data […]
Data mining of Facebook and Twitter posts by China
China is reportedly mining data from users of Facebook and Twitter and the plan is to feed its military with all useful information sieved from the tonnes of data using different AI based machine learning tools. Currently, the focus is majorly on America and UK and will slowly be shifted to Indian users if all […]
Microsoft shuts down 42 cyber spying Chinese websites
Microsoft has shut down 42 websites that were related to Chinese intelligence and were indulging in espionage and intelligence gathering. The tech giant has made it official that the websites that were pulled down were found targeting politicians, think tanks, individuals linked to human right organizations from US and across the world. The Satya Nadella […]
China setting up data traps says UK
UK’s top intelligence agency MI6 has made an astonishing revelation yesterday, saying that the Chinese intelligence has set up data and dept traps to conquer the entire world by conducting espionage and indulging in extortion tactics later. Richard Moore, the MI6 boss, asserted the statement by stating that Chinese government was providing secret funding to […]
China makes cybersecurity inspections mandatory for companies
China has made cybersecurity inspections mandatory for companies interested in applying for Hong Kong’s Public offering. The rule is being applied strongly across all business sections and will imply to companies that are handling sensitive data of over 1 million people. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is the authorizing power behind this mandatory law […]
China Personal Information Protection Law starts from November 1st, 2021
All Multinational Companies operating in China should abide by the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) of China from November 1st, 2021. Otherwise, the permission for the company to conduct business operations will be seized for violating rules. Also, Chinese state authorities will from now on indulge in assessing the process of how professional institutions are […]
Microsoft says Russia indulged in 58% of state funded cyber attacks last year
Microsoft has made a recent study and discovered that Russia indulged in over 58% of state funded attacks last year with China’s responsibility detected less that 10%. The tech giant also concluded that the threat actors from the Putin nation mostly targeted IT infrastructure based in United States followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO […]
Poland drops Gene Project over Chinese Data Security concerns
Poland has taken a stringent decision by dropping a Chinese firm from leading its gene mapping project, and this news piece was published in renowned US news resource Reuters. When sources from Cybersecurity Insiders tried to dig into the facts, all that was reported was confirmed to be a fact to a certain extent. Going […]
