BOSTON (AP) — A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. La...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany saw a drop in reported crime last year, partly due to pandemic restrictions that kept people indoors, although there was a rise in child abuse, domestic violence and cybercrime.
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — New accounts on Ashley Madison, a site marketed to those seeking affairs, rose by 35 percent in Taiwan during the pandemic last year.
In the midst of the global pandemi...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Twitter has announced it will establish a legal entity in Turkey in order to continue operating in the country, which passed a controversial social media law last year.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman has cut off access to the buzzy new audio chat app Clubhouse, the country’s telecommunications regulator confirmed Monday, setting off fears that authorities ac...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian police have arrested a man for circulating posts saying that President John Magufuli is in ill health.
Magufuli has not been seen in public for two we...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is well, the country’s prime minister said Friday, rejecting opposition claims that the COVID-denying president, who's been out of public view ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denied the appeal by one of the kingdom's most prominent political activists that would have allowed her to travel freely, her s...
Protesters have taken to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital following the death of a writer in a high-security prison on February 25.
Mushtaq Ahmed was arrested ten months ago under Bangladesh...
Clubhouse is an invite-only audio app that is surging in popularity in Thailand as a youthful protest movement continues to demand reforms of the government and monarchy.
Launched in April 2020, Club...
Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers' information in 2020 to focus on bigger, more profitable attacks on businesses, according to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Ce...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Law enforcement authorities in several countries have joined forces to disrupt what they call one of the world's most dangerous pieces of malware, one that allowed crimin...
10th
Allianz survey: Business interruption,
Pandemic outbreak and Cyber
incidents are the top three global business risks for 2021 -- all strongly
interlinked.
Globally,
Pandemic outbreak rockets to #...
Cases of online child sex abuse are up this year owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the EU's crime agency said on Monday.
Europol director Catherine De Bolle told Germany's Funke ...
Trend Micro predicts that remote and cloud-based systems will be ruthlessly targeted next year HONG
KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 9 December,
2020 - Trend Micro
Incorporated
( TYO: 4704 ; TSE: ...
