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A Russian goes on trial in Paris Monday accused of having defrauded nearly 200 victims across the world of 135 million euros using ransomware.
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The UK’s data privacy watchdog on Friday slashed a fine imposed on British Airways over a cyber attack after taking into account coronavirus fallout on the embattled airline’s finances.
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Twitter went offline for almost two hours on Thursday, in an outage that the social media platform — used by hundreds of millions worldwide — blamed on a technical glitch.
The company said there was no evidence that its security had been breached.
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Cyber warriors on NATO’s eastern edge are warning that the growing number of people working from home globally due to the pandemic is increasing vulnerability to cyber attacks.
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Governments around the world are using the pandemic as a justification to expand surveillance and crack down on dissent online, resulting in a 10th consecutive annual decline in internet freedom, a human rights watchdog report said Wednesday.
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Finance ministers from the G7 industrialized countries expressed “concern” on Tuesday over the rise in “malicious cyber-attacks” in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, including some involving cryptocurrencies.
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Norway’s government on Tuesday said that it believes Russia was behind an August cyber attack targeting the email system of the country’s parliament.
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The “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance demanded Sunday that tech companies insert “backdoors” in encrypted apps to allow law enforcement agencies the access they say they need to police online criminality.
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Belgium’s dominant telecom operator Proximus said Friday that it will gradually replace its equipment from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei with products from Finnish supplier Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson.
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The maker of a ‘smart’ male chastity device has recommended using a screwdriver to break them open after warnings they can be locked remotely by hackers.
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Continue reading Stuck in Your ‘Smart’ Chastity Device? Use a Screwdriver, Manufacturer Says