Chinese Writers Demand Apple Pay Up More in Piracy Case
A group of Chinese writers has nearly doubled the amount of compensation it is seeking from Apple in a lawsuit that alleges the U.S. tech giant has been selling pirated versions of the authors' works...
View ArticleFormer manager with Alibaba Group detained on bribery suspicions
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Thursday a former general manager in charge of its group-buying website had been detained by local police on suspicions of accepting bribes.Police in the...
View ArticleHuawei checking claims of vulnerabilities in its routers
Huawei Technologies said on Thursday it was verifying claims that its routers contained critical vulnerabilities, after security researchers disclosed alleged problems last weekend."We are aware of the...
View ArticlePolitics, not security, at center of Huawei, ZTE allegations, say analysts
A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Chinese telecommunication equipment vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation,...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Most PCs running pirated Windows in China have security issues
Microsoft has launched a new anti-piracy campaign in China, which intends to highlight the security risks of buying counterfeit software.In a recent investigation, Microsoft purchased 169 PCs from...
View ArticleChina's Defense Ministry calls accusations of state-sponsored hacking groundless
China's Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday refuted the accusations that the nation's military supports cyberespionage, and said a recent security report backing the claims used scientifically...
View ArticleChina sees increase in Trojan and botnet attacks from other countries
China saw an increase in Trojan and botnet attacks coming from other countries in 2012, as the amount of mobile malware in the country also surged, according to a local security group.During the year,...
View ArticleChina suffers major DDoS attack on .cn domain
China's Internet on early Sunday morning suffered a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that briefly disrupted and slowed access to sites in the .cn domain.The DDoS attack was the largest...
View ArticleChina's Windows XP users to still get security support
Microsoft is making a special exception in the way it retires Windows XP in China, and will continue offering security support for the OS to users in the nation.To do so, the U.S. software giant is...
View ArticleChinese Bitcoin exchange focuses on cash transactions to keep cryptocurrency...
Chinese banks may be cutting ties to Bitcoin suppliers, but that isn't stopping a local Bitcoin exchange from making physical cash a way to buy the cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, BTC China, one of the...
View ArticleWindows XP's retirement turns into major security project for Chinese firm
Microsoft may have retired Windows XP, but one of China's leading security vendors is trying to keep the OS threat-free, and rolling out protection software to hundreds of millions of users in the...
View ArticleChina counters US claims with own charges of cyber-espionage
China's state-controlled media released Tuesday a report that claims the U.S. hacked into Chinese systems using phishing attacks.During the last two months, U.S. based servers took control of about...
View ArticleChina bans government purchases of Windows 8, surprising Microsoft
China is banning Windows 8 devices from at least some government IT purchases, in a mysterious move that took Microsoft off guard.The ban came from China's Central Government Procurement Center, which...
View ArticleChina's Xiaomi faces privacy hurdles ahead of international expansion
China's Xiaomi has apologized for causing privacy concerns, after the fledgling smartphone maker faced scrutiny over whether it can be trusted with users' personal data.Last week, red flags were...
View ArticleChina attacks lead Apple to alert users on iCloud threats
Apple has warned users about attacks on its iCloud website, after monitoring groups alleged that China had tried to intercept customer information from the service. Although China was not named, Apple...
View ArticleChina denies involvement in Outlook.com attack
The Chinese government has denied any involvement in a recent cyber attack against Microsoft's Outlook.com, and it even went as far to accuse a watchdog group of slander for suggesting that the...
View ArticleChina signals censors will continue to crack down on VPN services
China has defended its growing attempts to control the Internet, after disrupting several services that allowed users to view the Web free of censorship."As the Internet develops, and new...
View ArticleChina says new cybersurveillance proposal follows US security practices
China is scratching its head over why the U.S. is opposing a new anti-terror law relating to cybersurveillance when the U.S. and other countries have also requested that tech companies hand over data...
View ArticleAnti-censorship group in China faces DDoS attack
An activist group working to end China's Internet censorship is facing an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that threatens to cripple its activities.GreatFire.org, a censorship...
View ArticleAlibaba's UC Browser found leaking users' data
A mobile browser owned by China's Alibaba Group contained privacy risks that could have exposed users' personal data, according to a security group.The flaws were found in UC Browser, a third-party...
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