Huawei’s telecom equipment carry serious significant risks: British government report

The report notes, “The evidence of sustained change is especially important as similar strongly worded commitments from Huawei in the past have not brought about any discernible improvements”. On Thursday, in a significant development, Britain has publicly chastised Huawei Technologies for failing to fix long-standing security flaws in its mobile network equipment and revealed new…

Trump Administration expected to unveil new cyber rules on vulnerabilities today

The new rules aim to balance the requirements of having a basket of vulnerabilities to conduct cyber attacks against enemy systems with that of protecting domestic industry and consumers from cyber attacks from foreign intelligence agencies, criminals and hackers. As per a national security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, on Wednesday the Trump…

Microsoft’s highly internal secret database of bugs had been hacked in 2013

Microsoft’s internal database contains description of vulnerabilities of its widely used products, including its Windows operating system. This treasure trove of critical information, guarded by just a password, was accessed by hackers in 2013. According to 5 former employees of Microsoft, a highly sophisticated group of hackers had managed to break into Microsoft’s network security…