Snapchat’s Family Center feature is launching at a time when social media companies have been criticised over a lack protection for kids Snapchat’s Family Center feature is launching at a time when social media companies have been criticised over a lack protection for kids Snap Inc, owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, rolled out […]
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Zimbabweans are being targeted by hate speech across Africa, as Kenya’s 2022 general elections draw near Zimbabweans are being targeted by hate speech across Africa, as Kenya’s 2022 general elections draw near Social media used to be a source of light entertainment for Nora, a 47-year-old Zimbabwean domestic worker living in South Africa. But lately, […]
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FROM Covid vaccine research centres to banking and financial entities to PSU major Oil India Limited — a range of institutions came under cyber attack during the two years of the pandemic, Lt General (Dr) Rajesh Pant, the country’s top cybersecurity coordinator, has told The Indian Express. While these attacks were “successfully thwarted,” said Lt […]
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Recently, there have been several reports of how people have lost money, sometimes even crores, due to illegal SIM swapping. SIM swapping has gained popularity among cybercriminals as an effective way to get past two-step verifications. Typically in SIM swapping a cybercriminal obtains a duplicate of your SIM card. However, in order to do this, […]
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India’s proposal India’s proposal before a United Nations (UN) ad-hoc committee to adopt measures similar to the controversial — and now defunct — Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, for introducing domestic legislation in member countries to categorise “offensive messages” through “communication devices” like social media as ‘offences’, has so far failed to […]
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A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A startup called Honorlock had flagged her as acting suspiciously during an exam in February. She was, she said in an email to The New York Times, a Black woman who had been “wrongfully accused of academic dishonesty […]
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Indian children have the highest online risk exposure and are among the youngest to reach mobile maturity, reveals a new study by McAfee Corp, a global leader in online protection. The report titled ‘Life behind the screens of parents, tweens, and teens’ explains how those most vulnerable may be left under-protected. In India, smartphone use […]
Continue ReadingCriminals carry out online rackets globally via deepfakes, romance scams and crypto frauds: NortonLifeLock Criminals carry out online rackets globally via deepfakes, romance scams and crypto frauds: NortonLifeLock Global cybersecurity services provider NortonLifeLock on Wednesday said it had blocked more than 18,013,055 threats – the equivalent of about 195,794 per day – during the first […]
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