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China-Backed Hacks of Cisco Routers Worry Feds — BlackTech Revenge?

TTP: IOS EEM CLI BBQ LOL—FBI, NSA, CISA join Japan’s NISC to warn of espionage group linked to Chinese Communist Party ...
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YouTube Bans Hong Kong Election Candidate Lee Ka-chiu

YouTube Bans Hong Kong Election Candidate Lee Ka-chiu

Google and Facebook ban China’s candidate in Hong Kong’s upcoming elections. John Lee Ka-chiu (pictured) was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2020 for his actions supporting China’s suppression of regional autonomy ...
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Zoom Chinese

Is Zoom the Next Huawei? ‘Puppet of Chinese,’ Say Critics

Zoom has been closing accounts of U.S. residents who are critical of the Chinese Communist Party ...
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Hong Kong Protests, Instagram’s Anti-Phishing Tool, Smart Device Fail

You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston In episode 90 for October 14th 2019: How protesters in Hong ...
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Chinese Accounts Punted Off Twitter, Facebook for Dissing Hong Kong

Influence operations are not limited to Russia, as evidenced by the Chinese efforts to cast the Hong Kong protests as tantamount to the equivalent of a terrorist-backed activity. On Aug. 19, Twitter ...
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Hong Kong violence

Hong Kong Violence Instigated by Jason Bourne

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A message was sent to Washington via China Daily July 25, when Beijing warned about bringing Taiwan and Hong Kong into the greater U.S.-China trade discussions. Then the fun started. The social ...
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DDoS Attack China

Telegram App DDoS from China Hinders #612strike Protest

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained denial-of-service attack. The DDoS was traced to IP addresses in China ...
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Hacker demands nothing after infecting Hong Kong Department of Health with ransomware

Hacker demands nothing after infecting Hong Kong Department of Health with ransomware

An incident that can only be described as strange occurred in Hong Kong last month when an unknown attacker used ransomware to lock up three computers owned by the country’s main healthcare ...