At the Web Summit, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz shares his sharp perspectives on political-hacking topics ranging from chatbot-seeking AI to security-inept campaign volunteers.
A billion-plus people use WeChat to chat, pay, and shop. But while its walled-garden success puts Facebook and Apple’s messaging apps to shame, the success comes with only-in-China costs.
Rewards and penalties tied to China’s social-credit systems are designed to control citizens’ online behavior, experts say. Gamifying it makes the process more palatable.
Security researchers at Recorded Future say China goes to great lengths to obscure truths in its software vulnerability disclosures, in part to conceal the inner-workings of its own cyberattacks.
Research presented for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, details new insight into the inner workings of China’s Internet censorship firewall.
The documentary, of two filmmakers who traveled to Tibet before the 2008 Olympics, shows how China uses technology to control information and people far beyond its borders.
Some security and policy experts see the agreement as a potential model for new treaties—or, at the very least, a sign of progress. Others see a whole lot of problems.
