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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:32 PM
The first ministerial meeting between China and the U.S. will take place Dec. 1-2. But don't expect U.S. officials to accuse China of violating their anti-hacking agreement.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Loretta Lynch will lead the U.S. delegation at the meeting in Washington.
"I would not characterize our first ministerial as any sort of deadline, and I think we will assess compliance with the written commitments as we go," Johnson said at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Wednesday. |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:20 PM
Android users are being targeted by more than 20,000 "trojanized" pieces of adware masquerading as legitimate applications, according to new research.
In research released on Wednesday, mobile security company Lookout says that malware called "Shuanet" is infecting Android devices by posing as popular applications like Facebook, Okta, Twitter, and WhatsApp.
"Unlike older types of adware that were obvious and obnoxious, prompting users to uninstall them, this new type of adware is silent, working in the background," Lookout's researchers write. |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:16 PM
The Obama administration is failing to adequately defend American companies against Chinese commercial espionage, according to two former intelligence officials.
"We need to find a way to raise the consequences for Chinese economic espionage. Signing an agreement where we both agree that we won't do it tells me that they are in exactly the wrong place to push back on Chinese economic espionage," Mike Rogers, former House Intelligence Committee chairman, told the |
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On the Washington Examiner.
