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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has hit out at Australia over the country's attempts to ban footage of a Sydney church stabbing on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The Australian court on Monday evening granted a two-day injunction, ordering the platform to hide videos of the April 15 stabbing for all users globally. "Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content for ALL countries, which is what the Australian 'eSafety Commissar' is demanding, then what is to stop any country from controlling the entire Internet," Musk wrote on X. "We have already censored the conten...
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, 46, has sparked a debate on people's behaviour on social media by publishing several hate messages that she said she had received herself. The harsh tone on social media is nothing new, she wrote on Instagram on Sunday, mentioning in particular: "Harassment, sexism, abuse, hate and threats." Unfortunately, this is part of everyday life for many, which she said worries her deeply. Frederiksen spoke of young people who take part in casting shows and receive racist and hateful messages, of journalists, researchers and civil servants who are threatened, of ...
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Investigators in 19 countries have taken down one of the world's largest phishing platforms, according to the EU law enforcement agency Europol on Thursday. Police arrested 37 suspects, including four alleged masterminds of the LabHost platform based in the United Kingdom, according to Europol. The agency said that the LabHost platform offered fake websites and software for cyber criminals. According to Europol, around 10,000 suspects had used the services of LabHost, which led to data thefts of around 480,000 credit cards and almost 1.2 million passwords worldwide. The lead investigators in L...
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Two major new laws regulating online platforms recently came into force in the European Union: the competition-focused Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the content-focused Digital Services Act (DSA). The European Commission has wasted no time in pursuing those it suspects of violating the new rulebook. The latest action came at the end of March, when the commission opened investigations into Apple, Google parent company Alphabet and Meta because it suspects them of not complying with the DMA's competition rules. The announcement came just two weeks after the DMA's entry into force on March 7, sho...
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Complaints about criminal content on the internet soared to 17,493 cases in Germany last year, almost double the previous year and a new record, the German internet association eco reported on Tuesday. Violence of a sexual nature and transgressions directed at minors made up 78.9% of cases, with a further 11.7% concerning other sexual transgressions seen as illegal under the relevant legislation. Alexandra Koch-Skiba, head of eco's complaints unit, described the increase, in particular in the area of sexual violence directed at minors, as shocking. "But it also makes clear that our society is ...
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More than one in 10 adults in Germany, or 11%, has been the victim of identity theft online. The figure is one of the findings of a representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of a national police-led crime prevention initiative, Sicher Handeln (ISH). The study was published in Berlin on Wednesday. A total of 2,058 people were questioned in the online survey, which was conducted at the beginning of March. The results were weighted and are representative of the German population aged 18 and over. ISH describes identity theft as a particularly nasty type of...
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More than one in 10 adults in Germany, or 11%, has been the victim of identity theft online. The figure is one of the findings of a representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of a national police-led crime prevention initiative, Sicher Handeln (ISH). The study was published in Berlin on Wednesday. A total of 2,058 people were questioned in the online survey, which was conducted at the beginning of March. The results were weighted and are representative of the German population aged 18 and over. ISH describes identity theft as a particularly nasty type of...
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A Chinese state-sponsored group targeted New Zealand lawmakers in a hack in 2021, the New Zealand government revealed on Tuesday. The announcement came after Britain and the US revealed that their democratic institutions and lawmakers had also been targeted. "The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable," New Zealand Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Judith Collins said. The hack had been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as APT40, Collins said. New Ze...
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The US government has charged seven Chinese nationals with computer intrusions targeting US businesses and individuals and perceived critics of Beijing, an indictment unsealed on Monday revealed. The seven individuals are alleged to be involved with a China-based "hacking group that spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses and political officials in furtherance of [China's] economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives," a US Department of Justice (DoJ) statement read. The announcement came as Britain and New Zealand revealed that their democratic in...
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A Chinese state-sponsored group targeted New Zealand lawmakers in a hack in 2021, the New Zealand government revealed on Tuesday. The announcement came after Britain and the US revealed that their democratic institutions and lawmakers had also been targeted. "The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable," New Zealand Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Judith Collins said. The hack had been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as APT40, Collins said. New Ze...
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