24 July: Jun Wei Yeo, aka Dickson Yeo, a Singaporean citizen, has been arrested in the United States as he flew back into the country from a trip abroad. He has now pleaded guilty in a federal court to a charge of spying for China between 2015-19. According to the …
The UK government has decided to ban all Huawei products from the country’s 5G network. All Huawei products that are part of the infrastructure must be removed by 2027 at the latest. Even this is not enough for some critics. A powerful group of Conservative MPs are telling media contacts …
10 March: The UK government’s plans to allow Huawei limited access to development of its 5G network squeaked past in the House of Commons. Thirty-eight Conservative MPs refused to follow the government’s instructions and voted for an amendment to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill that would have banned Huawei as a …
The US Attorney General William Barr has charged four officers belonging the People’s Liberation Army’s 54th Research Institute. The charges allege responsibility for the Equifax hack which occurred in 2017. The personal data of up to 147 million Americans was compromised by the attack. Some in Canada and the UK …
28 January: A Harvard professor has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Dr Charles Lieber, 60, is chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology and one of only twenty-six senior professors at Harvard. He specialises in nanoscience and brain/computer interface technology. It is alleged that since …