Five per cent of more than 90,000 critical infrastructure facilities in Hong Kong had “varying degrees of system vulnerabilities” last year, according to the cybercrime unit of the city’s police force. File photo: Sora Shimazaki, via Pexels. Credential leakage and compromise, hijackable subdomains, and exposed cloud storage were three critical and high-risk vulnerabilities identified in…
Perplexity CEO and cofounder Aravind Srinivas. Associated Press In February, days before the Super Bowl, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI search startup Perplexity, gave users a sparkly incentive to install its app. He posted on X that instead of buying a Super Bowl ad, the company would give $1 million to one lucky user who…
The amount of money lost by Hongkongers in online shopping scams rose by 87 per cent to HK$356 million (US$45 million) in 2024, with a woman who was cheated out of nearly HK$1 million in fraudulent concert ticket sales among cases. Police recorded 11,559 online shopping fraud cases last year, marking a 29.2 per cent…
The amount of money lost by Hongkongers in online shopping scams rose by 87 per cent to HK$356 million (US$45 million) in 2024, with a woman who was cheated out of nearly HK$1 million in fraudulent concert ticket sales among cases. Police recorded 11,559 online shopping fraud cases last year, marking a 29.2 per cent…
Chinese police add three alleged NSA agents to a wanted list over ‘advanced’ attacks. Police in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin have accused the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States of launching “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February, targeting essential industries. They added three alleged NSA agents to a…
More than 70 per cent of executives in Hong Kong expect an increase in financial crime in 2025, while only 18 per cent believe their organisation’s compliance programme is “very effective”, according a report from Kroll, a financial and risk advisory firm. The report, released Monday, surveyed more than 600 respondents worldwide between September and…
Hong Kong’s new police chief hopes to instil a sense of duty into residents to encourage them to defend national security in their daily lives, saying the city cannot afford to experience more clashes such as those during the 2019 social unrest. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming also said he was neither a “hawkish”…
Chinese semiconductor developer Loongson Technology has released its next-generation of chips as part of a strategy to “enter new era of AI processors”, according to company statements. The new processors, designated 2K3000 and 3B6000M, share identical silicon but differ in packaging; one for industrial control applications and the other for mobile devices. Both integrate eight…
This is your signal to invest in secure messaging. After The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat involving top White House officials, it begs the question: Which messaging apps are most secure? While the security snafu prompted scrutiny from President Donald Trump as to whether the Signal app is…
There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers market their software — sometimes referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely. Yet, despite how sensitive this data is, an increasing number of…