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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target
Richi Jennings | | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon
Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...
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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...
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Complex Technology Stack Supports Sprawling Chinese Crime Operation
A cybercrime group called Vigorish Viper runs a complex suite of technologies that support the sprawling operations of a Chinese crime syndicate that has its reach into illegal online sports gambling and ...
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Paperclip Maximizers, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity
Existential risk from AISome believe an existential risk accompanies the development or emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Quantifying the probability of this risk is a hard problem, to say nothing of ...
Temu is Malware — It Sells Your Info, Accuses Ark. AG
Richi Jennings | | breach of privacy, china, china espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese government, customer location, geofencing and location tracking, geolocation, Location, location access permission, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location services, location sharing location tracking, PDD Holdings, Pinduoduo, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Temu, Whaleco
Chinese fast-fashion-cum-junk retailer “is a data-theft business.” ...
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Millions and Millions of Fraud Domains: China attacks Illegal Gambling and Telecom Fraud
Last week I was reviewing a publication by the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime published in January 2024, titled "Casinos, Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and Transnational Organized Crime in East ...
Chinese Threats Aim for Government Sector
The rise in U.S.-politics-themed scams indicates that adversarial nation states understand the significance of election years ...
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TikTok Ban — ByteDance Sues US to Kill Bill
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban
PAFACA SueTok: U.S. Courts “likely” to rule whether new law is constitutional—or even practical ...
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Nigeria, Romania, Russia, U.S. Among Top Cybercrime Nations
Nathan Eddy | | attacks, brazil, cashing out, china, data theft, extortion, Identity Theft, money laundering, nigeria, research, romania, Russia, Scams
Russia and Ukraine topped a list of cybercrime-producing nations, followed by China and the United States, with African nation Nigeria rounding out the top five ...
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Why Major American Companies Held a Joint Cyber Drill, and You Should Too
Employees from large US enterprises, including Mastercard, Lumen Technologies, AT&T, and others recently joined with ...