A senior U.S. official told the Commerce Department’s enforcement staff this week that China’s Huawei should still be treated as blacklisted, days after U.S. President Donald Trump sowed confusion with a vow to ease a ban on sales to the firm. From a report: Trump surprised markets on Saturday by promising Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20…
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Eight of the World’s Biggest Technology Service Providers Were Hacked by Chinese Cyber Spies in an Elaborate and Years-Long Invasion
The invasion exploited weaknesses in those companies, their customers, and the Western system of technological defense, Reuters reported on Wednesday. From the report: Hacked by suspected Chinese cyber spies five times from 2014 to 2017, security staff at Swedish telecoms equipment giant Ericsson had taken to naming their response efforts after different types of wine. Pinot Noir began in September 2016….
Huawei Asks Verizon To Pay Over $1 Billion For Over 230 Patents
hackingbear writes: Huawei has told Verizon that the U.S. carrier should pay licensing fees for more than 230 of the Chinese telecoms equipment maker’s patents and in aggregate is seeking more than $1 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. Verizon should pay to “solve the patent licensing issue,” a Huawei intellectual property licensing executive wrote in February,…
Russia Says It Will Soon Begin Blocking Major VPNs
Russian telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor will start blocking major VPNs including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish and HideMyAss, following through with its threat back in March. At the time, ten major VPN providers were ordered to begin blocking sites present in the country’s national blacklist — but almost all of them didn’t comply. TorrentFreak reports: When questioned on the timeline for blocking, Roscomnadzor chief…
Japan To Limit Foreign Ownership of Firms in Its IT, Telecom Sectors
Japan’s government said on Monday that high-tech industries will be added to a list of businesses for which foreign ownership of Japanese firms is restricted. From a report: The new rule, effective Aug. 1, comes amid heightening pressure from the United States in dealing with cyber-security risks and technological transfers involving China. The Japanese government made no mention of specific countries…
US Telecom Operators Say They’ve (Mostly) Stopped Selling Your Location Data To Shady Middlemen
In a collection of letters published by FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on Thursday, representatives of T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon all said they had ceased or significantly curtailed the sale of their customers’ location data to companies whose shady practices brought to light triggered alarms among privacy advocates and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. From a report: The companies were responding to…
Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
Trailrunner7 shares a report: The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the internet’s cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a technique…
Customer Complaints About Telecoms Are Up 44% In Canada
Customer complaints about telecom services in Canada have increased by 44 percent over the past year, according to a new report by the federal body responsible for handling complaints. According to the annual mid-year report from the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services (CCTS), a total of 9,831 complaints were accepted between August 2018 and… Continue reading Customer Complaints About Telecoms Are Up 44% In Canada