CHIP MAKER Microsemi has denied suggestions that it built a backdoor into a processor used by the US military that could give Chinese hackers access to its systems.
When the report surfaced in a research paper out of Cambridge University, we were told this is a problem with Stuxnet-like ramifications. Not so, says Microsemi, which, though it is not party to all the information but enough to console itself, says that this has all been blown out of proportion.
An Internet hacking group claimed today to have broken into the networks of Warner Bros. and China Telecom, publishing documents and login credentials purportedly stolen in the breaches.
SwaggSec, also known as Swagg Security, announced the hack on its Twitter feed and published a statement on Pastebin, along with links to the purloined files posted to Pirate Bay.
According to a recent report at Patently Apple, China’s telecommunications bureaucracy last week granted a license for both 4G and 3G networks, which means Apple will be able to sell the latest iPad model on the mainland.
According to China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center website, the license was issued for the Apple device on Monday. Without it, the company couldn’t legally sell the new iPad in the Chinese mainland.
Members of TeamGhostShell recently published over 150,000 user names, hashed passwords and e-mail addressees stolen from an online education Web site for China's Hangzhou Dianzi University, along with thousands of user names, hashed passwords, e-mail addresses and private forum messages from FXTrader.eu, a European foreign exchange trading site.
"The group said it attacked the technical university's online education site, which is currently offline, because 'of the hilarious irony,'" writes SecurityNewsDaily's Matt Liebowitz.
Microsoft has blamed a Chinese security firm for leaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exploit code that was patched in March.
Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co, a specialist in firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, breached its non-disclosure contract with the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) by releasing the code. It was booted from Microsoft's vulnerability-sharing program last week.
Google may have rolled out its cloud-storage Google Drive last week, but some 500 million internet users may never have a chance to try it out - those in China.
Having hit the country's so-called Great Firewall, Google Drive has joined a host of other services banned in the communist nation, such as YouTube, Google+, Twitter, Dropbox, Facebook and Foursquare.
Chinese handset maker Huawei Technologies expects its smartphone chip business will help further drive revenue, signaling that the company could try to compete in the world's mobile chip market.
"In the future, whether it be mobile broadband devices, tablets, or smartphones, Huawei will be able to provide its own core chip solution," said Huawei executive vice president Eric Xu.
Chinese and Filipino hackers "exchanged fire" in cyberspace over the weekend, adding to the two countries' recent tensions over disputes in the South China Sea.
GMA News Online reported that Filipino "hacktivists" struck back on Saturday at Chinese websites after hackers - "apparently from China" - defaced the official website of the University of the Philippines on Friday.
A US-based Chinese-language website that has reported extensively on the Bo Xilai scandal in China says it was crippled for several hours by a concerted hacking attack.
The Boxun website had to move to a new webhost after the denial-of-service attack on Friday, its manager said. Boxun has reported for several weeks on the scandal surrounding Bo Xilai.
China National Electronics Import-Export Corporation (CEIEC) has denied that its systems were breached. But the hacker known as Hardcore Charlie, a supporter of the Anonymous ideal, insisted that the data he gained access to was legitimate, so he made available another set of documents, totaling 400 megabytes.
