So the latest news from behind the Great Firewall of China is that they plan to crack down on all unapproved Darknet VPN services. This means all VPN providers, cloud service providers and ISPs will have to seek an annually renewed licence to operate a VPN Service. Really, not very surprising coming out of China […]
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Microsoft China Offices Raided By Government
There has been a lot of back and forth between the US government and China when it comes to cyber-terrorism or cyber-espionage, valuable secrets being sought out by both sides. For political and commercial purposes, and if you’ve watched any movies lately you’ll know the ‘China Hackers’ are almost super human. This time the Chinese […]
Noted Chinese Hacker Wicked Rose Heading Antivirus Company Anvisoft
The latest scandal on the block, it seems like a noted Chinese hacker known as Wicked Rose or Withered Rose is involved with the Antivirus startup Anvisoft. The hackers real name is Tan Dailin and he was previously involved in the hacking of some US defence contractors. Anvisoft even posted on their official Facebook group […]
More Cyberterrorism – Taiwan Political Party Accuses China of Hacking
Well there hasn’t been a whole lot of news the last couple of days apart from the London riots – which don’t have much of a technical spin. The only technical part is that the looters/rioters etc seem to be organizing themselves using BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) and Twitter. The former being rather smart as it’s […]
Targeted Phishing Attacks Carried Out On Gmail – Likely From China
It was just about a week ago when we wrote about the technical flaw in Hotmail and the fact that the Hotmail Exploit Has Been Silently Stealing E-mail for some time. The latest news is some hackers have been targeting users of the Gmail service, specifically US government officials. This comes shortly after the news […]