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China's top messaging app WeChat banned from Hong Kong government computers
Google and WhatsApp also binned, which is far easier to explain than canning a local hero
Security24 Oct 2024 | 14
WeChat Chinese chat service and social network operated by tencent
WeChat devs introduced security flaws when they modded TLS, say researchers
No attacks possible, but enough issues to cause concern
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 15
China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes
Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 12
Dirty dancing grabs the attention of China's cyberspace regulators
Alibaba service fined as Beijing calls for online platforms to name major creators and deploy kid-mode services
Security02 Nov 2023 | 6
Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices
Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security'
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 11
Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps
WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms
Security02 Aug 2023 | 14
China outsources censorship to web giants to break the fake news business model
The likes of WeChat and Weibo suddenly have a lot of work to do – including turning off the money tap
Legal12 Jul 2023 | 10
WeChat makes facial recog payment systems talk to the hand
Wave-to-pay tech seems ideal for Jedi cosplay – if palmprints and veins are the biometrics you're looking for
Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 5
Twitter users can now trade stocks on the platform – sort of
Musk's everything app begins to take shape ... by adding links to an outside service
Networks13 Apr 2023 | 20
Chinese boffins call for research on ‘countermeasures’ to US chip bans
Suggest fundamental semiconductor physics research is needed if China is to build viable local industry
Systems21 Feb 2023 | 15
Counterfeit crud crooks crossed over to e-commerce during COVID
Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye
Networks01 Feb 2023 | 3
Microsoft reportedly mulls a does-everything 'super app' to expand mobile search
Trojan horse could bring more users to Teams, grow advertising, because Windows users just looooove MS ads
Software07 Dec 2022 | 66
Beijing signals Digital Yuan will integrate with existing payment schemes
It needs to, because the likes of Alipay are already ubiquitous – and already used overseas
Software13 Sep 2022 | 3
Sina Weibo, China's Twitter analog, reveals users' locations and IP addresses
Sssshhhh! Nobody tell Elon Musk
Security29 Apr 2022 | 9
Locked-in and hungry, Shanghai residents can't complain online
Beijing struggles to contain both misinformation and inconvenient dissent amid mass lockdowns
Networks11 Apr 2022 | 19
China's digital currency comes to WeChat. Next stop: over a billion users
For now, a mere 80 million more citizens can trial the Digital Yuan
Software08 Apr 2022 | 5
WeChat, AliExpress added to US Notorious Markets list
Trade watchdog admits China is #1 ... at cranking out counterfeit products, sometimes with forced labor
Legal18 Feb 2022 | 33
Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots
Updated Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift
Security24 Jan 2022 | 16
Biting the hand that feeds IT
