Chinese ‘Security’ Company Was a Den of Hackers, Feds Say

The Feds are accusing Boyusec of siphoning secrets from targets including Siemens. The company has connections with the notorious group APT3 that has connections with Beijing’s spy services. An obscure Chinese computer security firm acted as a front for a sophisticated hacking operation dedicated to siphoning secrets from targets around the world and the federal prosecutors have…

Skype Disappears From Chinese App Stores

SHANGHAI — Chinese authorities have removed Skype from Chinese app stores, therefore the app is unavailable on all the app stores and this includes Apple’s app store. Statement from Apple “The Minister of Public Security notified that a number of VoIP apps do not comply with local law. As a result the administrators removed these apps…

Breaking News – Key Reinstallation Attacks (KRACK)

Some hackers have broken the WPA2 protocol. Belgian researchers found that the internet traffic is not secure. The WPA2 WiFi Security protocol is NOT secure. And you are using it at home or at your office when you use the Wi-Fi. For full details of this security breach, please read https://helpdesk.ssbg.com.cn/index.php?/News/NewsItem/View/96/breaking-news—key-reinstallation-attacks-krack. At SSBG we have already…

Cyber Security Police Cracking Down on VPN Users

The topic of internet censorship in China has been a hot one in recent months, after large-scale removal of VPNs on Apple’s App Store and rumors of blocking VPN services in the country altogether. And it seems that the country’s cyber security is set to tighten further.   Reported by The Waijiao amongst others, this week a woman in Guangzhou was…

Pennsylvania sues IBM over troubled $110M IT upgrade

Pennsylvania is suing IBM over a $110 million IT project to upgrade its unemployment compensation system that the state says was never completed. […] The Pennsylvania project was ended in 2013; at that point, it was 45 months behind schedule and $60 million over budget. The state has continued to rely on its legacy systems. See Full…

Adobe Finally Kills Flash Dead

IN 2010, STEVE Jobs banished Adobe Flash from the iPhone. It was too insecure, Jobs wrote, too proprietary, too resource-intensive, too unaccommodating for a platform run by fingertips instead of mouse clicks. All of those gripes hold true. And now Adobe itself has finally conceded. The company announced Tuesday that it would “stop updating and distributing the…

Are VPNs About to Get Banned in China ?

You’ve likely got a VPN App (or two) on your phone to help visit inaccessible websites in China like Facebook and Instagram. But starting next month, they might be impossible to use. According to rumors circulating online this week, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) will be completely removed from Apple and Android’s Chinese app markets by July 1,…