ASRock shifting out of China to avoid US tariffs
Any business that relies on selling electronics to Americans is having a bit of a crisis at the moment. Less than two weeks into the new Trump administration, there’s a new 10 percent tariff on…
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Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk’s DOGE granted ‘full access’ to sensitive Treasury systems
A senior U.S. lawmaker says representatives of Elon Musk were granted “full access” to a U.S. Treasury payments system used to disperse trillions of dollars to Americans each year, and warned that Musk’s access to…
Apple posts ‘best quarter ever’ despite dip in iPhone, China sales
Apple’s all-important holiday quarter was something of a mixed bag. For one, Apple posted what it called it’s “best quarter ever” with revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year. However, the iPhone…
DeepSeek exposed internal database containing chat histories and sensitive data
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has fixed an exposed back-end database that was spilling sensitive information, including user chat histories and API keys, to the open internet. The DeepSeek database was not protected with a password,…
Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision
On Tuesday, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security told members of several advisory committees that they were effectively fired. Among the committees impacted is the…
DOJ confirms FBI operation that mass-deleted Chinese malware from thousands of US computers
U.S. authorities have confirmed that they disrupted the operations of a Chinese state-backing hacking group, which infiltrated millions of computers worldwide to steal data as part of a years-long espionage campaign. The Department of Justice…
China hacked US Treasury’s CFIUS, which reviews foreign investments for national security risks
Chinese hackers have reportedly breached a key office within the U.S. Treasury tasked with reviewing foreign investments and transactions that could threaten U.S. national security. CNN reports, citing U.S. officials familiar with the incident, that…
Japan says Chinese hackers targeted its government and tech companies for years
The Japanese government published an alert on Wednesday accusing a Chinese hacking group of targeting and breaching dozens of government organizations, companies, and individuals in the country since 2019. Japan’s National Police Agency and the…
US sanctions Chinese cyber firm linked to Flax Typhoon hacks
The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced…
Chinese government hackers reportedly targeted US Treasury’s sanctions office during December cyberattack
Chinese government hackers targeted the U.S. Treasury’s highly sensitive sanctions office during a December cyberattack, according to reports. According to The Washington Post, the state-sponsored hackers targeted the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a…