(Natural News) The Department of Justice has indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency has called a “decade-long cyber espionage campaign” that targeted defense contractors, COVID researchers and hundreds of other companies in more than 11 countries, including the U.S. “The defendants stole hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of trade secrets, […]

(Natural News) In its battle against the deadly Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), South Korea has increasingly adopted digital tools to keep its outbreak under control. However, one of the tools it is using was found to have several major security flaws that have made users’ private information vulnerable to hackers. Though the defects have since been fixed, […]

(Natural News) 5G is the fifth-generation mobile network, and telecom companies are playing up its faster speeds and greater connectivity. In fact, it is said to be at least 10 times faster than the 4G LTE network in use now, although some experts say it could even be 100 times faster, allowing people to download […]

(Natural News) Despite its strong stance against human rights abuses, Stanford University accepted funds amounting to millions of dollars from Beijing within the past decade, a new report has revealed. Stanford received a total of $58 million USD in the form of gifts and contracts from the Chinese government starting in 2013. For National Association […]

(Natural News) A Chinese medical scientist who spent a year on a fellowship in San Francisco has been arrested and charged with visa fraud, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The scientist, Xin Wang, 36, was charged with one count of visa fraud for failing to disclose on his visa application that he is an active-duty member […]

(Natural News) A nuclear attack is terrifying, that much is certain. Both the United States and Russia have pulled out of a decades-old nuclear weapons pact; North Korea continues to test their missile program; and tensions in Iran are putting a lot of people on edge. However, there’s another threat that the world needs to look […]

(Natural News) Officials in the state of Washington have acknowledged the loss of “hundreds of millions of dollars” to an international scheme that hammered the state’s unemployment insurance system. The attack, which is thought to have originated in Nigeria, could mean even longer delays for thousands of unemployed workers still waiting for legitimate benefits. The […]

(Natural News) CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s […]

(Natural News) There are currently around 2,000 satellites orbiting the earth, each one beaming down signals which allow us to enjoy our favorite television shows, movies and even connect to the internet. Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. or SpaceX, which launched 242 satellites as of the end of January, plans to deploy about 42,000 […]

(Natural News) A newly discovered flaw in chips powering wireless devices from a number of popular brands has left over a billion people vulnerable to hacking. Researchers working for the Slovakia-based internet security company ESET discovered a flaw that can allow hackers to steal data from people using these devices. ESET researchers have officially tagged the flaw as CVE-2019-1526, but have […]