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The US vs Apple and Microsoft: makings of a perfect storm
Business, Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd, Published on 01/04/2016
» In February, a US court in California issued an order to Apple that was equivalent to a magnitude 9 earthquake striking Silicon Valley. It told Apple to write code to bypass a security feature to allow a brute-force password attack by the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists killed by police after the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.
Restoring respect
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 07/06/2021
» Patama Chantaruck still remembers an unsettling encounter she experienced during her early days of living in the United States 28 years ago.
Tightening the net on the global ransomware threat
Spectrum, Published on 04/06/2017
» On the morning of March 6, Somsak Vatinchai, the managing director of laboratory equipment firm Design Alternative Co, was surprised to find himself unable to log onto the company's computer system like he did every weekday.
The cyber whodunnit and the global blame game
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/12/2017
» The US government has officially attributed to North Korea the WannaCry ransomware attack, which encrypted hundreds of thousands of computer drives around the world in May, 2017. And yet as with a series of other highly public cyberattack attributions, little evidence for the claim was made public. It's time for the cybersecurity world to follow the advice of the Rand Corporation and set up an unbiased international consortium that would seek to attribute attacks based on a common set of rules.
Worldwide cyberattack demands ransoms, cripples UK hospitals
Associated Press, Published on 13/05/2017
» LONDON - Britain's health service was hit Friday by a huge international cyberattack that froze computers at hospitals across the country - an attack that shut down wards, closed emergency rooms and brought medical treatments to a screeching halt.
Avoid traffic jams with your mobile phone
Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/06/2011
» On Blackberries already, the Traffy mobile phone app allows drivers to check traffic with webcams, Google Maps and social networking sites.
LM evidence disputed
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/09/2012
» Judges will rule on Oct 31 in the lese majeste trial of computer expert Surapak Phuchaisang, after hearing defence witnesses on Friday rebut police evidence as not credible enough to convict the defendant.