Cyber crime
Social media, children and the struggles of finding justice for cyber crimes
John Perlman speaks to social media law expert, Emma Sadleir Berkowitz about the difficulties that come with reporting social media crimes in the digital age.
Sabric's Louise Van Der Merwe said email scams remain one of the most common holiday scams.
Technology company Altron said that it was extremely concerned about the lack of cyber security in some government departments and small businesses.
Sabric said it saw an emerging trend where smart phones are being snatched from owners in order to gain access to their bank accounts.
Thousands of victims supplied personal information, including social security numbers, to the fake sites in the hopes of securing $2,000.
Here is how smartphones can be hijacked and a look at the potential consequences and the thriving market in surveillance vendors helping the world’s spies get access to people’s secrets.
The worst thefts of personal data by the number of victims.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that Assange would receive "no special treatment" from Canberra.
Facebook had already shut down most of those account, and blocked the rest after an internal investigation, according to Gleicher.
A group of people from all over the world have teamed up to protect young online users from paedophiles or any other potential victimisation.
Moscow has denied previous accusations that it carried out cyber-attacks on the United States and other countries.
Last week, US Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies on charges of conducting a criminal and espionage conspiracy.
More than half the victims were in Russia, followed by Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey and Japan, according to ESET.
The agencies warned that hackers had succeeded in compromising some targeted networks, but did not identify specific victims or describe any cases of sabotage.
The Right2Know campaign and others are worried about provisions that could give the state backdoor access to private networks or broad surveillance powers.
The new reality is on display in Las Vegas this week at the annual Black Hat and Def Con security conferences.
The centre also says that devices that connect to the internet and that contain microphones and cameras can even be used by hackers to record voices or take images, without the users’ knowledge.
The rapidly spreading cyber extortion campaign underscored growing concerns that businesses have failed to secure their networks from aggressive hackers.
The agreement was worked out on Friday during talks in Ottawa between senior communist party official Wang Yongqing and Canada’s national security.