Formosa Television (FTV) reported an intensive series of cyberattacks while China’s People’s Liberation Army conducted live-fire military exercises, the National Communications Commission said yesterday.
The television station was the only broadcast media in Taiwan to report a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Department of Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Deputy Director Wu Ming-ren (吳銘仁) said, adding that the network reported information security breaches on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and yesterday.
“The cyberattacks have mainly affected FTV’s Web site and its live broadcast over YouTube,” Wu said. “The YouTube content was changed by hackers on Saturday.”
The volume of the cyberattacks varied from 3 to 10
Four China-made smartphones have yet to pass an information security test administered by the National Communications Commission (NCC), the telecom authority said yesterday, without disclosing the brands.
The commission in the second half of last year inspected 10 popular smartphones in Taiwan, NCC Department of Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Deputy Director Wu Ming-ren (吳銘仁) said.
“Only iPhones passed on the first go,” Wu said.
“We then informed the other nine smartphone manufacturers including those from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China that they should be tested a second time,” Wu said. “By Tuesday, five four of which were made
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