The Justice Department late on Wednesday asked a US appeal court to reject an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban. TikTok and ByteDance on Monday filed the emergency motion with the US … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, taking in one of the most storied rivalries in college sports while spotlighting his emerging national security team. Navy defeated Army 31-13 on Saturday to take home the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, CBS Sports reported. … Read more
TikTok is offering users hundreds of dollars to spend time in the app, invite friends to join and purchase products on TikTok Shop, in an effort to expand the business as quickly as possible ahead of its possible ban in the US. TikTok users recently began seeing a new “limited time offer”, which compensates them … Read more
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s gun distribution reform issued about 188,000 gun licenses, with about 138,000 people receiving the weapons they were waiting for in the past year. Overall, 365,000 people applied, a Friday report from Walla noted. In 2022, there were 154,458 people in Israel without a licensed firearm, but by 2024, this … Read more
China’s top anti-espionage agency has warned that foreign agents are recruiting Chinese teenagers to collect sensitive information, exploiting their lack of judgment and awareness of national security risks. The Ministry of State Security said in an article posted on social media on Friday that overseas intelligence agencies “package illegal activities and set traps, aiming to … Read more
Foreign spy agencies are using common crowdsourcing jobs to steal state secrets, China’s top anti-espionage agency warned on Wednesday, advising the public to be cautious about the highly covert tactic. The strategy involves dividing intelligence-gathering tasks into smaller jobs and recruiting people using crowdsourcing platforms, the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said in a WeChat … Read more
China’s top anti-espionage agency has outlined security risks in overseas study tours, citing cases in which teachers and students in key tech sectors have been subjected to border entry scrutiny and approached by spies. In an article posted on its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Ministry of State Security said “certain countries” had imposed … Read more
China’s data agency has announced an ambitious plan to develop a national digital infrastructure by 2029 to manage data as a key resource. According to draft guidelines released by the National Data Administration on Friday, the growth of the digital economy has increased demand for “better data circulation, usage and value extraction”, highlighting the need … Read more
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers, from the 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bragg N.C., conduct live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on Dec. 14, 2021, of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System. John Hamilton | U.S. … Read more
China’s top spy agency has warned that foreign agents could use flaws in the country’s massive camera surveillance network to steal state secrets. The warning, posted on the WeChat account of the Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Sunday, came after a citizen from an unnamed city reported to the agency that video surveillance cameras … Read more
