Details About Chinese Surveillance and Propaganda Companies

Details from leaked documents: While people often look at China’s Great Firewall as a single, all-powerful government system unique to China, the actual process of developing and maintaining it works the same way as surveillance technology in the West. Geedge collaborates with academic institutio...

600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet

Hackers leaked 600 GB of data linked to the Great Firewall of China, exposing documents, code, and operations.…...

Muddling Meerkat Group Suspected of Espionage via Great Firewall of China

By Deeba Ahmed Uncover the "Muddling Meerkat," a China-linked threat actor manipulating the DNS. Infoblox research reveals a sophisticated group with deep DNS expertise and potential ties to the Great Firewall. Learn their tactics and how to stay protected. This is a post from HackRead.com Read t...

China-Linked 'Muddling Meerkat' Hijacks DNS to Map Internet on Global Scale

A previously undocumented cyber threat dubbed Muddling Meerkat has been observed undertaking sophisticated domain name system DNS activities in a likely effort to evade security measures and conduct reconnaissance of networks across the world since October 2019. Cloud security firm Infoblox...

China Blocks Microsoft's Bing Search Engine, Despite Offering Censored Results

Update: Microsoft's search engine Bing has been restored in China after being inaccessible in the country for almost two days. According to sources familiar with the matter, Bing was blocked due to an accidental technical error and not due to an attempt at censorship. China has blocked...

Apple Moves iCloud Data and Encryption Keys for Chinese Users to China

Apple has finally agreed to open a new Chinese data center next month to comply with the country's latest controversial data protection law. Apple will now move the cryptographic keys of its Chinese iCloud users in data centers run by a state-owned company called Cloud Big Data Industrial...

Chinese Man Gets 5-Year Prison for Running 'Unauthorized' VPN Service

While continuing its crackdown on services that help Chinese citizens to bypass Great Firewall, Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without obtaining a proper license from the government. Earlier this year, the Chinese government...

China Bans WhatsApp Messenger

Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has already been struggling for its existence in China ever since July when Chinese government blocked its users from sending photos and videos over the app. Now, it appears that China has largely blocked Facebook-owned WhatsApp in its latest step to tighten...

Chinese Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass Great Firewall

--- Image source: goldenfrog In an effort to continue its crackdown on VPNs, Chinese authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man for selling VPN software on the Internet. China's Supreme Court has sentenced Deng Jiewei from Dongguan in Guangdong province, close to Hong Kong, to nine months in...

Facebook Covertly Launches A Photo-Sharing App In China

The Chinese market is no doubt a pot of gold for big technology giants with over 700 million internet users, but the Chinese government heavily controls the Internet within its borders through its Golden Shield project – the Great Firewall of China. The Great Firewall has blocked some 171 out of...

Apple removes VPN Apps from the China App Store

In order to comply with Chinese censorship law, Apple has started removing all virtual private network VPN apps from the App Store in China, making it harder for internet users to bypass its Great Firewall. VPN service providers that provide services in China has accused the United States tech...

China Shuts Down Popular VPN Services to Make Great Firewall Stronger

Online Privacy has been one of the biggest challenges in today's interconnected world, as the governments across the world have been found censoring the Internet, stealing information and conducting mass surveillance on innocent people. China is one such nation which always wanted to have a tight...

China makes VPNs illegal to tighten its Great Firewall

China is long known for its strict Internet censorship laws through the Great Firewall of China – China's Golden Shield project that employs a variety of tricks to censor Internet and block access to various foreign websites in the country by its government. The Great Firewall has blocked some 17...

Russia Wants to Kick Foreign Tech Companies Out Of The Nation

Someone wants to kick Microsoft, Google and Apple off from his land, but himself uses Gmail and Mac. The newly appointed Internet Tsar German Klemenko, who is the first internet advisor of Vladimir Putin, wants to kick off American Giants from Russia. In a 90-minute interview conducted by...

NSA Hacks into 3 major Chinese operators to steal millions of SMS Data

Once again NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the truth, that the NSA hacks into China’s mobile operators to steal millions of text messages. Every month Washington come up with new reports and accuse other nations, particularly China, for cyber hacking, but the biggest culprit of such cri...

How the Great Firewall of China Blocks Tor

Governments in some countries have not been shy about trying to block their citizens from using the Tor network to access censored or sensitive Web content. The Chinese government has become quite proficient at this, and a recent analysis of the methods the country is using to accomplish this sho...

China plugging holes in its Great Firewall by disrupting VPN traffic !

China plugging holes in its Great Firewall by disrupting VPN traffic ! Chinese internet users suspect that their government is interfering with the method they have been using to tunnel under the "Great Firewall" to prevent them connecting with the outside world. Sites such as search engine Googl...