Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers with ties to the Chinese government appear to be targeting US companies despite a recent security deal between the US and China’s government, which promised to stop cyberattacks aimed at stealing economic secrets. Dmitri Alperovitch, the chief technology officer of…
China still trying to hack U.S. firms despite Xi’s vow to refrain, analysts say
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese government hackers have attempted in the past few weeks to penetrate the networks of U.S. companies to steal their secrets despite a pledge by China’s president that they would not do so, according to private researchers. Chinese hackers have targeted…
Apple News is disabled in China to prevent Cupertino from having to play censor
The Apple News app is running in the United States only, and has been since its launch last June. The app allows users to find in one place, all of the news stories that they are interested in, published in the style of the publications that they came from. The…
Huawei Enjoy 5 unveiled with 4000mAh juicer; phone to launch in China only on October 16th
Huawei has officially introduced the Huawei Enjoy 5. The handset features a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280. That gives the display a 294ppi pixel density. Powering the phone is the MediaTek MT6735 chipset, which carries a quad-core CPU, and the Mali-T720 GPU. 2GB of RAM is…
Report: U.S. and China bound Samsung Galaxy S7 models to carry Snapdragon 820 chipset
A report out of China released Friday morning (while it was still Thursday in the U.S.), reveals that versions of the Samsung Galaxy S7 heading to the U.S. and China next year, will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset. Everywhere else, Sammy’s new flagship phone will be powered…
US should sanction China for hacking: Rackspace exec
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Rackspace‘s chief security officer said Wednesday it was critical for the United States to impose sanctions on China in response to alleged cyber attacks. The White House is considering applying sanctions against companies and individuals in China it believes have benefited…
U.S., China: Cyber Peace Deal To Be Signed Despite Chinese Hacker Discovery?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A cyberwar peace deal might be among the core issues that will be addressed in the impending state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week the United States, after both countries have accused each other of spying, according to…
UPDATE 1-U.S. SEC fines advisory firm for shoddy controls after cyber attack traced to China
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A St. Louis-based investment advisory firm will pay $75,000 to settle civil charges alleging it failed “entirely” to protect its clients from a July 2013 cyber attack that was later traced to China, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. The Securities and…
China Does Not Steal Commercial Secrets Or Support Hackers, Xi Jinping Tells WSJ
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans BEIJING — China’s government does not engage in the theft of commercial secrets and does not support Chinese companies which do this, President Xi Jinping told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Tuesday. “Cyber theft of commercial secrets…
Apple Pay takes another step toward a launch in China
Amid forecasts of strong growth in mobile payment services in Asia, Apple could be closer to a launch of Apple Pay in China. Earlier this year, we told you that Apple was negotiating with China UnionPay, the lone bank in China that deals with interbank payments. The bank was hung…