Month: May 2022
Facebook Blocked Australian News Outlets
Facebook deliberately used an over-zealous blocking system that took down the pages of Australian emergency services last year as a negotiating tactic, whistleblowers claim. The social network moved to block all news outlets in Australia over a row about paying news providers. Facebook says blocking other pages had been an honest mistake. Former employees, backed
$7bn backing for Twitter deal
Billionaire Elon Musk has lined up 19 new investors to help with his $44bn purchase of Twitter. The commitments, totalling 7.1bn, will allow Mr Musk to reduce his own risk in the deal which has been approved by Twitter’s board but not completed. Mr Musk, whose rank as the world’s richest person is tied to
LinkedIn bogus boss scams
Fraudsters are targeting young professionals using their LinkedIn profiles, One scam known as “bogus boss” involves workers receiving fake emails purporting to be from their employer. Cyber protect officer James Squire said it was one of the fastest growing scams the force was seeing. The website is “great for business,” but allowed the criminals access
fake Ukraine charity websites
Fake sites have used the branding of charities such as Save the Children. Some scammers have even pretended to be getting equipment to soldiers on the front line. The investigation identified a bogus site, calling itself Save Life Direct – which claimed to have raised $100,000 (£80,000) – was registered to a man based in
Screen-sharing scams
Screen-sharing has become a familiar part of work life, as people use popular online meeting programmes in their jobs. Remote access software is a legitimate tool for services like IT support to troubleshoot problems without being in the room. But scammers are increasingly hijacking this familiarity to lure victims into granting access to more than
Laptops Donation to Ukraine
SCHol Tech are installing the Ukrainian language onto computers and delivering them across Somerset. The Taunton-based group of IT specialists have been refurbishing donated laptops since early 2021. The scheme was started in early 2021 by Bridgwater father-of-three, Dan Taylor, who wanted to provide free computers for schoolchildren taking classes online during the second coronavirus
No -confidence vote on Sri Lanka Prime Minister
Sri Lanka is on the brink of bankruptcy after the country’s recent announcement to suspend payments on its foreign loans. The country faces repayments of $7 billion of foreign loans this year of the $ 25 billion it is scheduled to pay by 2026. Sri Lanka has less than than $ 1 billion in foreign
attack on steel steel plant in Mariupol
Russia stepped up its attack on the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on Tuesday after a ceasefire broke down with civilians still trapped inside, Ukraine said. Despite the partial evacuation, officials from the Azov Battalion claimed the bombardment of the Azovstal steelworks resumed shortly after some managed to escape. Their claim appeared to be backed up
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missiles
In March, North Korea resumed long-range missile launches for the first time since 2017. Officials in Seoul and Washington have said Pyongyang could be preparing for nuclear tests as well. North Korea has carried out 14 missile tests this year, including a suspected intercontinental missile launch in late March. Wednesday’s launch comes a week after
Kyviv biological weapons
In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin cited a “network of Western bioweapons labs” in Ukraine as one of the threats facing Moscow and one it wanted to fight through its invasion of the country. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), which entered into force in 1975, prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use