In March 2018, an administrative court in Egypt ordered authorities to suspend the licenses of Uber and competitor Careem pending a final court ruling in a case brought forward by taxi drivers. Uber challenged the decision, and th...
Website of the US National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) has been hacked to include a malicious link, inviting board members to accept an infected calendar invite for a meeting, a cybersecurity firm Fidelis Cybersecurity reported. ...
In the USA, Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) isreportedly planning to replace the net neutrality order adopted by the FCC in 2015, with voluntary agreements through which telecom providers would ad...
Google has started to expand its fact-checking tools for Google Search and Google News to a global level, working with fact-checking groups like PolitiFact and Snopes. Although the feature is not going to directly address the...
Each year, the European Commission in co-operation with national authorities for consumers protection conducts anEU-wide screening of websites('sweep') to assess the extent to which consumer protection laws are respected in certai...
DiploFoundation published the report of the study "Cybersecurity Competence Building Trends", commissioned by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The study outlines various measures that OECD member states applied to ...
Recentstatistics on new generic top level domains (gTLDs) show that 54,2% of all domain name registrations in new gTLDs originate in China. This amounts to a total of almost nine million domain names. According to the same stats, ...
FBI director James Comeysaid that the tool used by the bureau to unlock the phone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters only works 'on a narrow slice of phones', and it will not be efficient on newer models of iPhones (l...
The European Commission has adopted the Action Plan on VAT, which 'sets out immediate and urgent actions to tackle the VAT gap and adapt the VAT system to the digital economy and the needs of SMEs.' The Action Plan includes measur...
According to Reuters, Indonesia's tax office will be examining the tax reports of Yahoo, Twitter, Google and Facebook. Finance Minister Brodjonegoro told the media outlet that 'revenue from ads should be part of those taxable...
The ransomware Trojan Locky, first identified in February 2016, continues to propagate around the world via spam email messages. According to Kaspersky, there have been attempts to infect users with the Trojan in 114 countries, th...
According to sources cited byReuters, the White House is declining to publicly support draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies to assist law enforcement authorities in accessing encrypted data. ...