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Best of 2025: NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.

HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged  replies. Chinese web users couldn’t access websites outside the People’s Republic yesterday. The outage lasted an hour and a quarter—with no explanation. Nobody’s sure whether it ...

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NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.

Xi Whiz: HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged replies ...

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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it

Richi Jennings | September 18, 2024 | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages

No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...

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Chinese, A PRC flag flies atop a metal flagpole

PRC State Hacking: ‘Chinese Edward Snowden’ Spills I‑Soon Secrets in Huge Dump of TTPs

Underpaid, overworked and angry: Whistleblower in hacker contractor firm for Chinese government blows lid off tactics, techniques and procedures ...

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1989 Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image, with the text “inappropriate speech” superimposed

China Cracks Apple Private Protocol — AirDrop Pwned

Richi Jennings | January 10, 2024 | Airdrop, Apple, Beijing Wangshendongjian, china, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese drive-by attack, chinese government, Great Firewall of China, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, hash generation, hashes, Peoples Republic of China, rainbow table, SB Blogwatch

AirDrop hashing is weaksauce: Chinese citizens using peer-to-peer wireless comms “must be identified.” ...

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Should the West Build its Own ‘Great Firewall’?

Jack Lindsay | March 18, 2022 | china, Cyberwarfare, Great Firewall of China, Russia

Lost amid all the focus on China’s ‘Great Firewall‘ and Beijing’s efforts to censor what its citizens can see and say is the undeniable capability afforded to a nation’s defensive posture through ...

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Great Firewall Ready to Unleash ‘Gigantic’ DDoS—so are Other Middleboxes

Richi Jennings | August 19, 2021 | amplification attacks, censorship, ddos, Great Firewall of China, SB Blogwatch, TCP Reflection Attacks, they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks

Researchers have disclosed a nasty new way for bad people to mess up the internet for the rest of us ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On