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FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet

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botnets, china, hacking, Security technology, Uncategorized

The FBI has shut down a botnet run by Chinese hackers: The botnet malware infected a number of different types of internet-connected devices around the world, including home routers, cameras, digital video recorders, and NAS drives. Those devices were used to help infiltrate sensitive networks related to universities, government agencies, telecommunications providers, and media organizations…. … Read More “FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet” »

US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack

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china, email, hacking, microsoft, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior U.S. government officials. From the executive summary: The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred. The Board … Read More “US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack” »

TikTok Editorial Analysis

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academic papers, china, filtering, propaganda, Security technology, social media, Uncategorized

TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.) Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on … Read More “TikTok Editorial Analysis” »

China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks

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china, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, espionage, hacking, japan, military, Security technology, Uncategorized

The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story: The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current … Read More “China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks” »

Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese

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authentication, backdoors, china, cybersecurity, hacking, keys, microsoft, Security technology, Uncategorized

A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. Congress wants answers. The phrase “negligent security practices” is being tossed about—and with good reason. Master signing keys are not supposed to … Read More “Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese” »

Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away

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china, hacking, Security technology, squid, Uncategorized

A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect: Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessel’s geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away” »

AIs as Computer Hackers

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, china, darpa, essays, hacking, robotics, Security technology, Uncategorized

Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their own computers while attacking other teams’. It’s a controlled setting for what computer hackers do in real life: finding and fixing vulnerabilities in their own systems … Read More “AIs as Computer Hackers” »

Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

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academic papers, china, cryptanalysis, cryptography, quantum computing, rsa, Security technology, Uncategorized

A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shor’s algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy. But it … Read More “Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer” »