Escondida mine is the world’s largest copper producer located in northern Chile. Image: BHP Australian mining giant BHP announced this week that it has decided to create its own COVID tracing app and would be conducting field tests in Chile next week. BHP said the app was developed by its technology and health, safety and […] More

Image via Alex Haney Facebook filed a lawsuit this week against Namecheap, one of the biggest domain name registrars on the internet. The social networking giant claims that Namecheap has refused to cooperate in an investigation into a series of malicious domains that have been registered through its service and which impersonated the Facebook brand. […] More

In recent weeks, NewsGuard, the internet news watchdog service, has been escalating its battle against misinformation by opening a Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center and offering its service for free to all internet users until July 1.  Featured stories NewsGuard is a desktop browser extension that displays credibility and transparency content scoring and is available by […] More

More online shoppers are falling for scams in Singapore, where cybercrime accounted for 26.8% of all crimes last year with e-commerce scams the most popular. Some 9,430 cybercrime cases were reported last year, up 51.7% from 2018 when there were 6,215 cases.  E-commerce remained the leading tactic used by scammers who hoodwinked 2,809 victims in […] More

Evil Corp, one of the biggest malware operations on the internet, has slowly returned to life after several of its members were charged by the US Department of Justice in December 2019. In a report shared with ZDNet today, Fox-IT, a division within the NCC Group, has detailed the group’s latest activities following the DOJ […] More