av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 2, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Nyheter, Threads
Fem VPN-appar i Apples App Store kan kopplas och knytas till den kinesiska militären skriver Tech Transparency Project i en rapport. Det är gratis-appar som laddats ned och installerats miljontals gånger.
En rapport från forskargruppen Tech Transparency Project avslöjar att fem, VPN-appar, alla gratis ägs av kinesiska bolag och det finns kopplingar till den kinesiska militären. Tech Transparency Project har undersökt de 100 bästa gratistjänsterna för virtuella privata nätverk (VPN) som finns i App Store. Det visade sig att fem appar ägdes av kinesiska företag.
Avslöjades
Enligt kinesiska nationella säkerhetslagar så är kinesiska företag skyldiga att lämna över webbläsardata från användare. Forskarna fann också att flera appar kunde spåras tillbaka till företaget Qihoo 360, ett företag som det amerikanska försvarsdepartementet anser vara ett ”kinesiskt militärt företag”. I en artikel från 2015 i Chinese Daily avslöjades att bland företagets kunder fanns People’s Liberation Army, den kinesiska armen, och minst åtta kinesiska regeringsdepartement.
De fem apparna är:
- Turbo VPN
- VPN Proxy Master
- Thunder VPN
- Snap VPN
- Signal Secure VPN (ej kopplat till Signal Messaging-appen)
Magasin Macken 7 juli 2019
Nästan en tredjedel av alla VPN-företag ägs i hemlighet av kinesiska bolag
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 2, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
The Beatles films have found their Fab Four – find out more below.
At the end of Sony’s CinemaCon presentation on Monday night in the US (April 1 in the UK), director Sam Mendes took the stage to make a pair of blockbuster reveals for his four upcoming Beatles films.
After a year of speculation, Mendes has confirmed that the Fab Four will be portrayed by Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn. Dickinson will play John Lennon, Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Keoghan will play Ringo Starr and Quinn will play George Harrison.
Källa: ’The Beatles’ films: Fab Four cast revealed
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 2, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
A hacker operating under the alias “CoreInjection” is claiming responsibility for the breach of Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point, alleging access to sensitive internal data and network systems.
The hacker published their claims on Breach Forums on Sunday, March 30, 2025, and announced the sale of the stolen content for a price of 5 Bitcoin ($434,570). The hacker emphasized that the price is “firm and non-negotiable,” with cryptocurrency being the only accepted form of payment. Interested parties were directed to make contact via the TOX messaging platform.
Källa: Hacker Claims Breach of Check Point Cybersecurity Firm, Sells Access
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 2, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Chinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects.
So says the Investigation Bureau of Taiwan’s Department of Justice, which last Friday published an outline of a years-long probe into attempts to poach Taiwanese talent in defiance of laws that restrict investments and hiring by Chinese companies.
The Investigation Bureau alleges China gets around those measures by setting up companies that go to considerable lengths to hide their connection to the Middle Kingdom.
One of those companies is apparently called Yunhe Zhiwang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd and develops high-end network chips. The Bureau claims its chips are used in China’s “Data East, Compute West” strategy that, as we reported when it was announced in 2022, calls for five million racks full of kit to be moved from China’s big cities in the east to new datacenters located near renewable energy sources in country’s west. Datacenters in China’s east will be used for latency-sensitive applications, while heavy lifting takes place in the west.
Källa: Fake Chinese companies in Taiwan hired Intel and MSFT talent
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 2, 2025 | Bluesky, Nöje, Notiser, Threads
Val Kilmer, the charisma-oozing leading man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self-loathing characters as Jim Morrison, gunslinger Doc Holliday and Batman during his all-too-brief career, died Tuesday. He was 65.
Kilmer, who came to fame for playing the competitive naval aviator Tom “Iceman” Kazansky alongside Tom Cruise in Tony Scott’s 1986 mega box-office hit Top Gun, died of pneumonia in Los Angeles, his daughter, actress Mercedes Kilmer, told The New York Times.
Källa: Val Kilmer, Actor Revered for Playing Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
