Some of the largest technology companies in the world including Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube have grouped together to fight COVID-19 related disinformation announcing their endeavor thro...
According to BBC Russia, a breach within the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) ecosystem revealed the existence of a so-called Fronton Program. The program's technical documentation was released by the hacke...
According to Wired, Google and Facebook are 'discussing plans with the White House to share collective data on people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic'. In order to evaluate the spread of the virus as well as to assess ...
In its newly released 2019 Annual Report, the EU's EDPS provided insights into all EDPS activities in 2019, which was the last year of a five-year EDPS mandate. EDPS activities focused on consolidating the achievements of previous...
In the UK, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC) and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have released a new surveillance camera specific data protection impact assessment (DPIA) template. The new template and associa...
A team of computer scientists at Loughborough University have developed an AI system that can predict air pollution levels hours in advance. The solution can detect PM 2.5 particles that pose one of the biggest threats to health a...
The 'Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Policies for Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution' workshop from 18-22 March 2019 held in Sejong, Republic of Korea was organised by the United Nations Eco...
Norsk Hydro, one of the world's biggest aluminum producers, suffered a cyber-attack in which hackers blocked its systems with ransomware. This caused Hydro to switch some of its production units to manual operation. The Norwegian ...
Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant of the Mirai botnet, famous for the massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on DNS provider Dyn and other resources in 2016. The unit found that the updated botne...
The GSM Association (GSMA) launched a report ondigital transformation in Tanzania pinpointing four main areas where the mobile industry is espousing digital transformation and the development processes: (a) access to key services ...
The Council of the European Union adopted the EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol that gives a central role to Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) to support EU law enforcement authorities in providing response t...
Cybersecurity companyPalo Alto Networks has found that a new variant of Mirai malware has been discovered. Mirai is best known for being used in the 2016 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This time, the new variant tar...