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Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers (Gordon Corera/BBC)

October 30, 2022

[ad_1] Gordon Corera / BBC: Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since…

Researchers say the Lapsus$ hackers' success reveals how many weaknesses in organizations weren't immediately useful to state-backed actors or cybercriminals (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

September 28, 2022

[ad_1] Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers say the Lapsus$ hackers’ success reveals how many weaknesses in organizations weren’t immediately…

State-backed Iranian hackers spread malware through links to fake VPN apps

September 8, 2022

[ad_1] A highly resourceful Iranian state-backed hacker group uses malicious links to VPN apps sent via SMS texts to inject…

Apple's state-backed Chinese data center partner, Guizhou Cloud Big Data, says lockdowns have paralyzed the city of Guiyang, stopping workers from seeing family (Bloomberg)

September 8, 2022

[ad_1] Bloomberg: Apple’s state-backed Chinese data center partner, Guizhou Cloud Big Data, says lockdowns have paralyzed the city of Guiyang,…

Lloyd's of London will require insurer groups in its global marketplace to exclude state-backed hacks from stand-alone cyber insurance policies starting in 2023 (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

August 20, 2022

[ad_1] James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: Lloyd’s of London will require insurer groups in its global marketplace to exclude…

Sources: China has ordered government agencies and state-backed companies to replace foreign PCs with domestic ones running local OSes in two years (Bloomberg)

May 6, 2022

[ad_1] Bloomberg: Sources: China has ordered government agencies and state-backed companies to replace foreign PCs with domestic ones running local…

Alibaba's cloud ambitions, aiming to rival AWS, have been derailed by Beijing's crackdown, as sources say many institutions have moved to state-backed rivals (Bloomberg)

April 18, 2022

[ad_1] Bloomberg: Alibaba’s cloud ambitions, aiming to rival AWS, have been derailed by Beijing’s crackdown, as sources say many institutions…

Twitter will label tweets linking to Russian state-backed media outlets and will apply such labels to other countries' state media outlets in the coming weeks (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

February 28, 2022

[ad_1] Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter will label tweets linking to Russian state-backed media outlets and will apply such labels…

EU to ban Russian state-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik | Engadget

February 27, 2022

[ad_1] In a decision that could have a significant impact on how companies like YouTube moderate their platforms, the European…