A misconfigured Aliyun or Alibaba private cloud server has led to the leak of around one billion Chinese nationals’ personal details. An unknown hacker, identified as “ChinaDan”, posted an advertisement on a hacker forum selling 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, equivalent to about $200,000. Touted to be one of the largest data breaches […]
By Robert Boczkiewicz and John Shiffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Chinese citizen convicted of trying to smuggle American-made radiation-hardened microchips from California to China was sentenced Wednesday to three years in U.S. prison. Philip Chaohui He, the target of a U.S. Homeland Security sting, was arrested in late 2011 at a port near Los Angeles […]
Security took a few unexpected twists and turns for the first week of April. For one, Mac owners received a bit of a jolt when a rapidly spreading botnet ran rampant on their machines. Meanwhile, Anonymous is expanding its reach to the world’s most populous nation and the public white board Pastebin appears to be […]
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