OVER 60K ANDROID APPS FOUND SECRETLY INFECTED WITH ADWARE FOR LAST 6 MONTHS

Wed 14 June 2023: Over 60,000 Android apps have silently and covertly loaded adware on mobile devices over the past six months while remaining unnoticed. The antivirus company Bitdefender claims to have found 60,000 distinct samples (unique apps) harboring the adware to yet and estimates there are many more out there in the wild, according […]

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TWITTER’S CO-FOUNDER SAYS INDIA THREATENED SOCIAL NETWORK WITH SHUTDOWN

Tue 13 June 2023: India, Nigeria and Turkey had threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, co-founder Jack Dorsey has alleged. Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, said on Monday that India threatened the company with a shutdown and raids on employees if it did not comply […]

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UN CHIEF URGES SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRITY TO CURB MISINFORMATION

Tue 13 June 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday called on member states to address the “grave global harm” caused by the proliferation of hate and lies online, as he launched a key report designed to shore up information integrity on digital platforms. Alarm over the potential threat posed by the rapid development of generative […]

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SAUDI ARABIA TO ESTABLISH INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY FORUM

Mon 12 June 2023: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued on Wednesday a royal decree to establish a new institute for the Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF) in Riyadh, state news agency SPA reported. The institute aims to harness the potential of cyberspace and support efforts to boost cyber safety on a global scale. “The […]

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NASA AIMS TO AVERT AN ‘INTERNET APOCALYPSE’ THAT COULD HALT INTERNET ACCESS FOR MONTHS

  An artist’s concept of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observing the Sun. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Mon 12 June 2023: NASA has launched a satellite as part of a quest to avert a “internet apocalypse” that could leave people without internet connection for months. According to Mirror, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) of the […]

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META IN TALKS WITH OPRAH WINFREY AND DALAI LAMA TO EXPLORE ITS TWITTER-LIKE APP

Sat 10 June 2023: The future micro-blogging network “sanely run” from Meta will use Instagram’s account system to automatically populate a user’s information. According to The Verge, Meta is in talks with prominent figures including Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama, and DJ Slime about becoming early users of their Twitter alternative. The ‘ActivityPub’ decentralized social […]

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BAN ON HUAWEI WILL BE ‘BRAZEN’ VIOLATION OF MARKET PRINCIPLES, CHINA SAYS

Fri 09 June 2023: China said on Wednesday that the EU’s decision to impose a ban on Chinese technology giant Huawei would be a “brazen” violation of the values of free trade, a market economy, and competitiveness that the “EU claims to champion.” Huawei has never compromised the security of any European nation since it […]

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EU THREATENS META WITH ‘HEAVY SANCTIONS’ IF IT FAILS TO FIX CHILD PROTECTION ISSUES

Fri 09 June 2023:  The EU threatened “heavy sanctions” against tech firm Meta on Thursday and demanded that it take “immediate action” for the protection of children, Anadolu Agency reported. “Meta’s voluntary code on child protection seems not to work,” EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton asserted on Twitter. He urged the company’s CEO […]

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UK TO REMOVE SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT MADE BY CHINESE COMPANIES FROM SENSITIVE GOVERNMENT SITES

Thu 08 June 2023: As part of its most recent efforts to address national security concerns over China, Britain has pledged to removing surveillance equipment built in China from sensitive government locations, Reuters reported. China has been described by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as the biggest threat to global security and prosperity, and this year […]

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