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The Singapore government has directed Facebook to block access to the States Times Review (STR) page, after the latter repeatedly refused to comply with previous directives under the country’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). The “disabling” order, outlined under Section 34 of the Act, requires Facebook to disable access for local users. […] More
Forget those futuristic interfaces controlled with waving hands. That’ll get old. Brainwaves are the ultimate control, and are, in fact, about the only channel open to severely disabled people. Works on many machine learning models Brain-computer interfaces (BCI), first developed in the 1980s, are widely used for the disabled, as well as research. The tech […] More
Cyber criminals are distributing a powerful form of trojan malware to victims by disguising it as a launcher for one of the world’s most popular video games. LokiBot trojan malware first emerged in 2015 and remains very popular among cyber criminals as a means of creating a backdoor into infected Windows systems. It steals sensitive […] More
As the US tax season kicks off, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has warned accountants and taxpayers to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) features available in tax-preparation software products. Scammers, of course, know that the US tax season is ripe with opportunity, so the IRS has dispensed information security advice to protect taxpayers and accountants from the […] More
The South Korean government has warned the public of a sharp rise in smishing attempts — scam text messages — that use misinformation about the novel coronavirus outbreak. As of February 15, 9,688 smishing texts had been sent that used false information on the novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korean police, and […] More
A handful of Canadian government departments and agencies have reportedly compromised the personal information of 144,000 individuals across 7,992 breaches experienced over the past two years. As reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Canadian government revealed the information in an answer to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP Dean Allison late […] More
Image: IDF Members of the Hamas Palestinian militant group have posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers into installing malware-infected apps on their phones, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said today. Some soldiers fell for the scam, but IDF said they detected the infections, tracked down the malware, and then […] More
Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has a handful of non-corporate Commonwealth entities in its sights for the next round of cybersecurity probes, with the three entities responsible for cyber policy within the government to face examination. The Attorney-General’s Department (AGD); Australian Signals Directorate (ASD); Australian Trade and Investment Commission; Department of […] More
