China is leading the global trend towards cyber sovereignty, a norm based on the use of technology to control what sort of information can be accessed and exchanged within a national boundary and by whom. Several recent reports...
Government surveillance is a ubiquitous and growing phenomenon in China. New documents issued by the Ministry of State Security last month will empower Chinese law enforcement to search electronic devices without either a...
A major data leak of internal documents from Chinese cybersecurity firm i-Soon, also known as Anxun, has shed new light on the inner world of China’s cyberespionage and its state-backed hackers for hire. Among the documents...
In recent weeks, Chinese authorities have raided foreign firms, imposed exit bans, restricted databases, and expanded an espionage law. Together, these measures point to the government’s growing assertiveness in controlling...
Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s top internet regulator, is reshaping internet and AI governance. Following the Data Security Law and Personal Information and Protection Law which went into effect late...
Last week, U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye published a report on "one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years," identifying its alleged perpetrator...
Two new blows against Chinese network equipment giant Huawei landed this week, in the form of additional U.S. legal charges and reports of “smoking gun” evidence that the company’s products constitute a serious...
The ongoing mass detentions in Xinjiang are accompanied by an intense security and surveillance...
Late last week, Bloomberg’s Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley published stunning claims...
This post refers specifically to one Chinese manufacturer of security keys, and to Google’s...
At The Diplomat, Zach Toombs reports on China’s efforts to block Virtual Private...
On Monday, censorship monitor GreatFire.org reported apparent efforts to intercept Chinese Apple...
Apple’s aggressive promotion of encryption for its devices’ internal storage has won...
A blog post from security firm Lacoon details the discovery of mobile malware apparently being...
Reuters’ Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten report that Apple has started storing data for Chinese...
Bloomberg’s Steven Yang and Lulu Yilun Chen report that Apple laptops and tablets have been...
A Hunan city government’s use of the world’s most common password allowed public...
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