espionage

Reuters is reporting that Google has suspended transfers of technology with Huawei after the U.S. blacklisted the Chinese manufacturer of electronics. This includes Android and hardware products according to the article. Huawei will still have access to open source licenses.

Private investigators analyzing the Marriott International data breach are finding hacking tools, techniques, and procedures previously used in attacks attributed to Chinese government intelligence gathering operations. The sources are reluctant to blame China as other parties have access to the...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged three Taiwanese nationals and United MIcroelectronics Corp (UMC) in addition to Chinese state-owned Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. with stealing intellectual property from the U.S. largest memory maker, Micron Technology Inc. Attorney General Jeff...

Over a period of 5 years, Chinese intelligence officers Zha Rong and Chai Meng, along with other co-conspirators sought to involve co-opted company insiders to hack and steal sensitive commercial aviation and technological data from firms in the United States and abroad. The intelligence...

Chipmakers are slowing the transition to sub-10nm process nodes as money woes start to affect the foundries. Companies such as Mediatek and Qualcomm are rolling out new 14 1/2nm products while waiting in the wings for 7nm technology to mature for 5G products. As reported earlier...

Elon Musk allegedly sent a company wide email that detailed acts of sabotage by a Tesla employee who was angry over not receiving a promotion. The employee is accused of making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false user names and exporting Tesla's sensitive...

Technical website "The Information" has published an article claiming that Uber is in league with the Lord of Darkness. Are you stunned? Neither am I. Through the use of spoofed rider accounts on the Lyft platform, Uber found that they were able to track the 8 closest Lyft drivers to the...

For maximum security, corporations will air-gap their most sensitive data. Air-gap is when the PC isn't connected to the internet or other PCs connected to a network that can assess the internet. Sounds like a really protected PC that you can trust? Of course not! In this age of industrial...