If you’re antsy at the idea of PRISM reading your Facebook messages, be thankful you’re not a foreign diplomat. The Guardian is reporting that GCHQ, the UK’s communications surveillance unit, hacked delegates’ BlackBerry handsets during 2009′s G20…
The US Navy’s quieter way to spy, the Ion Tiger, just bested its own 2009 flight record with a key assist from liquid hydrogen. The unmanned aerial vehicle had previously relied on 5000-psi compressed hydrogen for fuel, but for its latest flight t…
The US Department of Defense has taken the unusual step of singling out China’s cyber-spying activities in its annual report. Though the government has tacitly chided such deeds before and even threatened sanctions, yesterday’s document marks the …
Last month, Congress signed into law an appropriations bill that requires four federal agencies to conduct an FBI-assisted security assessment when purchasing computers and other IT gear manufactured in China. Predictably, China came …
China has come out in strong opposition to a new US law that restricts government purchases of Chinese technology, saying the measure threatens to harm economic relations between the two countries. The provision, passed Thursday as pa…
The latest US appropriations bill, signed into law just this week, includes a provision that is likely to further raise tensions between the country and China. The provision requires the Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, …
One of China’s most elite and prestigious research universities appears to have a working relationship with the military unit that’s said to be behind recent cyber-espionage attacks on US companies and government agencies. Reuters has…
Nadim Kobeissi, developer of the secure chat client Cryptocat, claims that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may have installed a backdoor on his computer to monitor his activities, prompting him to migrat…
It seems that there’s more than two out-of-control computer viruses roaming around the Middle East. Security researchers think that a further three could be operating “at large,” with one positively identified on machines in Iran and Lebanon. Teams f…
Should you ever get the itch to illegally peek at a former employer’s servers, take a lesson from Michael Bravin: don’t. The former ARRI executive’s adventures in corporate espionage have landed him nothing but trouble. Although Bravin’s previous plea…
