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Vanuatu’s government said Thursday it was slowly getting its communications back online following a cyberattack that knocked out emergency services, emails and phone lines for weeks.
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The hackers leaking stolen Australian health records to the dark web on Thursday appeared to end their extortion attempt by dumping a final batch of data online and declaring:”Case closed.”
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Ireland’s data regulator on Monday slapped Facebook owner Meta with a 265-million-euro ($275-million) fine after details of more than half a billion users were leaked on a hacking website.
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US authorities announced a ban Friday on the import or sale of communications equipment deemed “an unacceptable risk to national security” — including gear from Chinese giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE.
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The European Parliament website was hit by a cyberattack claimed by pro-Russian hackers Wednesday shortly after lawmakers approved a resolution calling Moscow a “state sponsor of terrorism”.
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A Ukrainian hacker sought by US authorities for a decade was arrested last month in Switzerland, the specialist website Krebs on Security reported.
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A new EU law imposing stricter online regulation comes into effect Wednesday and the biggest platforms like Facebook and Google will have until February 17 to reveal their user numbers.
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Cybersecurity researchers said they have found evidence of Chinese spyware in Uyghur-language apps that can track the location and harvest the data of Uyghurs living in China and abroad.
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A top security officer for Twitter resigned on Thursday as new owner Elon Musk’s revamp of the platform saw a boomlet of fake accounts, drawing a rare warning from US regulators.
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Hackers on Wednesday began leaking sensitive medical records stolen from an Australian health insurer with nearly 10 million customers, including the prime minister, after the firm refused to pay a ransom.
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