Cyber

A quick roundup of the most important news from around the region.

Boosting the national defense budget, avoiding a spending blowout on submarines, watching out for aggression in the South China Sea and keeping up Taiwan’s defense from cyber attacks; chances are Taiwan’s president will be kept busy keeping the country safe in the second year of her presidency.

'An adequate defense will be multilayered and rolling it out will be much more difficult than simply ensuring our politicians change their passwords regularly.'

This is the first of a three-part interview with Taiwan’s ‘genius hacker'.

Are online spaces opening up politics in the Philippines? Noahlyn Maranan takes a look.

Last week's crippling cyberattacks in the U.S. are a harbinger of the digital future and the ever more visible vulnerabilities of a networked world.

Besides cyber-nationalism, translation plays an important role in environmental activism, feminist activism, labor activism and human rights activism.

Earlier this month, China launched Micius, the world’s first quantum communications satellite. While this technology will complicate efforts to bug or intercept China's communications, history shows that no system is ever completely secure.

Beijing has banned original reporting in online news programs in what many commentators see as the latest move to restrict political dissent in China.

China’s leading search engine Baidu is under investigation for the late-night promotion of illegal online gambling.

Is the latest move from China’s Internet watchdog a fresh sign of draconian oversight or just a push toward more sensible journalism?