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China has penetrated every sector, British response to threat ‘completely inadequate', warns parliamentary panel
Chandanprakash •The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee said in a wide-ranging report released on Thursday that the intelligence threat posed by China is compounded by a "whole-of-state" approach with the use of state and non-state players for spying.
Capital taking flight out of China as Xi Jinping pushes for self-sufficiency
Fp Staff •Last month, China banned products from the biggest U.S. maker of memory chips, Micron Technology Inc., in computers that handle sensitive information. It said Micron had unspecified security flaws but gave no explanation.
US shares concern with Cuba about hosting China spy base
Fp Staff •Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez on Monday again rejected the allegations as false, dismissing them as a U.S. fabrication meant to justify Washington's decades-old economic embargo against the island.
Volt Typhoon, BackdoorDiplomacy, and other Chinese groups hacking critical infrastructure in the US
Fp Explainers •Microsoft has said that Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised ‘critical’ US cyber infrastructure across numerous industries with a focus on gathering intelligence. They further claim that Volt Typhoon was behind the snooping
China's NYC police station nothing new as Beijing has over 100 stations in 53 countries
Abhishek Awasthi •A human rights advocacy group based named Safeguard Defenders claimed in September that there were 54 such stations and now, according to its recent report named ‘Patrol and Persuade’, it has discovered evidence of 48 new police stations abroad
Spy Games: How China operated a ‘secret police station’ in New York and threatened pro-democracy activists
Fp Explainers •The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents for running a ‘covert police station’ in New York at the behest of the Xi Jinping government. They worked closely with China’s Ministry of Public Security and tracked dissents in the US. There are reportedly 100 such outposts across the world
Chinese spying row: OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Oppo phones sold in China loaded with spyware
Mehul Das •Chinese smartphone companies selling their devices in China load the devices with a lot of bloatware that actually collect all sorts of data from users, and send it to the Chinese Communist Party. The data ranges from IMEI numbers to app behaviour.
Confusion building over ambiguous US ban on Chinese surveillance technology
•The law comes amid growing fear that Chinese technology could be used as a tool to spy on Americans.
Qualcomm has unlawfully charged excessive royalties on its chipsets: US FTC
•Qualcomm said Wednesday that it would appeal, suggesting the case could still take a few years to resolve.
China raids Microsoft again as anti-trust authories continue monopoly probe
Tech2 News Staff •