A leak of personal information from online train ticket sales during the busiest time of year has spurred public outcry over Internet vulnerability. A trove of personal data used for buying tickets on the official ticket-selling website is circulating on the Internet. The leaked information includes usernames, passwords and emails.
As China's Lunar New Year approaches, a big number of people have resorted to the internet as the fastest way to purchase tickets in the lead up to the Chunyun, the hectic travel period surrounding the Chinese New Year. The ticket rush has also led to the birth of software and web browsers that allow passengers to cut ahead of others when snapping up online tickets.
Read morePoor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover Panorama investigation. Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken.
It found standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories. Apple said it strongly disagreed with the programme's conclusions. Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai. One undercover reporter had to work 18 days in a row despite repeated requests for a day off.
Read moreUK cyber security professionals have identified Russia and China as the countries that produce the most skilled hackers, according to a survey carried out by information security consultancy. A lot of people believed that the hackers with the highest skills come from Russia.
Almost a third of respondents surveyed at a recent IT conference linked the success of their overseas counterparts to a combination of more investment, better education and political motivations. Russia has long been recognised for being behind various malware strains and exploits. Recently, it was reported that Russian hackers had exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows dubbed Sandworm to perform cyber espionage on NATO.
Read moreThe number of Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild is increasing, DeathRing is the last one discovered by the experts. It’s not first the time that Android handsets come preloaded with malware, but cyber security experts are warning of a worrying increase of the cases.
The problem is widespread in Asia and Africa, where criminals are able to compromise the supply chain. Similar cases are frequent for a cheap, low-level devices. Security researchers have detected pre-loaded instances of the DeathRing malware, unfortunately they are not currently aware of where in the supply chain the mobile trojan is installed.
Read moreHackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping and scores of other crucial uses, officials said. NOAA did not say its systems were compromised.
Officials also said that the agency did not notify the proper authorities when it learned of the attack. NOAA officials declined to discuss the suspected source of the attack, whether it affected classified data and the delay in notification. Determining the origin of cyberattacks is very difficult and Chinese officials have denied repeated accusations that they intrude in U.S. government computer systems for espionage or other purposes.
Read moreDistributed Denial of Service attacks against Hong Kong websites increased a whopping 111% as pro-democracy protests in the Special Administrative Region of China took hold. Data demonstrating a striking correlation between real-world and online conflict was examined.
While establishing definitive causal relationships and attribution is tricky, DDoS attacks appear to have become the “new normal” in countries experiencing political unrest. Additionally, large-scale DDoS attacks were observed targeting Hong Kong-related internet properties that coincide with reports of debilitating disruptions of online media outlets sympathetic to the protest movement.
Read moreChina will soon have the world's most secure major computer network, making communications between Beijing and Shanghai impenetrable to hackers and giving it a decisive edge in its quiet cyberwar with the United States of America.
A fibre-optic cable between the two cities will transmit quantum encryption keys that can completely secure government, financial and military information from eavesdroppers. Currently, anyone wanting to send a secret message over the internet encrypts their communications so that only someone with the right code at the other end can unlock it. China is building the world’s first long-distance quantum encryption network, a line that will be theoretically unhackable.
Read moreA new kind of malicious software strikes at Mac OS X and iPhone users in China. Apple users in China have an active, new threat to contend with that attacks iPhones and iPads through Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a US security firm reported.
The malicious software waits for a device running iOS mobile operating system to connect via USB to a Mac laptop or desktop. The software stores adds malicious code to legitimate iOS apps. The malware attack is limited to China. The threat is new to Apple, though this sort of attack has been around since about 2003, said intelligence director. Apple did not return a request for comment.
Read moreA cyberattack on federal security clearance contractor USIS, was unnoticed for months before it was revealed by the company and government agencies earlier this year.
Officials and others familiar with an FBI investigation and related official inquiries told that the breach, similar to previous hacker intrusions from China and cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost government contracts. In addition to trying to identify the perpetrators and evaluate the scale of the stolen material, the government inquiries have prompted concerns about why computer detection alarms inside the company failed to quickly notice the hackers.
Read moreLast week, the FBI warned U.S. industries of a new highly skilled group of hackers that was targeting companies and government agencies in a long-running cyberespionage campaign. Novetta says that's the same group of hackers, the Axiom group.
Another day, another Chinese hacking group gets publicly shamed. This time it is group dubbed Axiom, identified by a coalition of international cybersecurity firms. The group has hit a lot of computers around the world, targeting pretty much all kinds of victims such as government and law enforcement agencies, human rights and environmental groups, software companies, and more, according to the researchers.
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