TikTok Editorial Analysis
January 2 2024TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.)
Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag...
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China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
August 14 2023The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be...
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Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
August 7 2023A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen...
Read moreChinese Hacking of US Critical Infrastructure
May 31 2023Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure. Lots of interesting details about how the group, called Volt Typhoon, accesses target networks...
Read moreA Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect:
Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities...
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Another Malware with Persistence
March 10 2023Here’s a piece of Chinese malware that infects SonicWall security appliances and survives firmware updates.
On Thursday, security firm Mandiant published a report that said threat actors with...
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AIs as Computer Hackers
February 2 2023Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their...
Read moreReal-World Steganography
January 20 2023From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his...
Read moreBreaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
January 4 2023A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously....
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: China Bans Taiwanese Squid Imports
December 10 2022Today I have some squid geopolitical news. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my...
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