One of the advantages of Samsung Pay is that the mobile payment service works not only with retailers who use NFC wireless POS systems, but it also works with every retailer that swipes a credit card to ring up a transaction. That is due to the magnetic secure transmission used…
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…
Chinese computer hack attacks slow ahead of Obama summit: experts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Major intrusions by Chinese hackers of U.S. companies’ computer systems appear to have slowed in recent months, private-sector experts say, ahead of a meeting between China’s president and President Barack Obama with cyber security on the agenda. Three senior executives at…
Chinese computer hackers hit pause ahead of Obama summit
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Major intrusions by Chinese hackers of U.S. companies’ computer systems appear to have slowed in recent months, private-sector experts say, ahead of a meeting between China’s president and President Barack Obama with cybersecurity on the agenda. Three senior executives at private-sector…
Two Chinese men each planned on selling a kidney in order to buy the Apple iPhone 6s
According to China Daily, two Chinese men identified as Wu and Huang both wanted an Apple iPhone 6s. There is nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that the pair did not have the necessary funds to make such a purchase. So Huang came up with an idea. Both…
OBAMA COMPLAINS ABOUT CHINESE CYBER-ESPIONAGE
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A few weeks ahead of a visit to Washington from Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Obama is talking tough about Chinese cyber-attacks. “We’ve made very clear to the Chinese that there are certain practices that they’re engaging in that we know…
Don’t Like a News Story? Pay a Chinese Hacker to Get It Deleted
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A novel business model involving government officials, policemen, website administrators, hackers, and thousands of middlemen was recently cracked down upon by Chinese authorities, leading to the dissolution of several gangs who engaged in the activity. Clients—government officials, business executives, celebrities, anyone…
UVA hackers probably interested in school’s Chinese or government connections
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A couple of weeks ago, the University of Virginia had to temporarily shut down its computer network after an attack by hackers believed to operate out of China. Little information was made available about the hack at the time, though unnamed…
Chinese hackers targeting Sino-India border dispute: Report
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese hackers are believed to be snooping on information related to the Sino-India border dispute and Tibetan exile groups in India since 2012, a US-based cyber-security firm has claimed. The hackers were detected in April ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
Chinese Email Hackers Continue Spying on Top US Figures
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WASHINGTON (Sputnik)– The intelligence official and a top secret National Security Agency (NSA) briefing from 2014 reportedly said the cyberspies had accessed US government officials’ private email correspondences since at least April 2010, according to NBC News. The official told the broadcaster that the…