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China Charts Plan for Tech Self-Sufficiency

China’s policymaking body, the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (I did not make up this name) approved a plan yesterday for developing home grown science and technology with an eye toward self-sufficiency. According to a press release by the state run news agency, Xi said that while China has made substantial progress in trying to […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 17, 2021

LA Police Collected Social Media Account Info From People They Talked To I’m sure they were just curious. The LA police watchdog says that officers were instructed to collect civilians’ social media details when they interviewed them. An Email from the Chief dating back to 2015. He said it could be beneficial to investigations and […]

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What is the Back Story on China’s Hack of Microsoft Exchange Servers?

One possible answer is that they wanted to steal your email, impersonate you and use your email accounts to send spam and malware. This is certainly possible, but there is another, more sinister possibility. What if – China was looking for mountains of data to train its AI systems? The attacks gave them tens of […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 18, 2021

Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 11, 2021

Feds Recover Some of the Colonial Pipeline Ransom The feds say that they recovered most of the Bitcoin paid as ransom, but because the price of Bitcoin is in a slump, it is only worth about $2 million. The feds say that they acquired the private key to the Bitcoin wallet and transferred 63 Bitcoin […]

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