Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rahman has said that newly passed cybercrime bill by the National Assembly would help prevent online harassment, cyber stalking and blackmailing. Talking to a news channel, the minister said that people who threat, scare…
Women in Kuwait caught promoting their prostitution online
Two Romanian women arrested in Kuwait after they were caught soliciting money for sex will be deported. The two women had recently entered the northern Arabian Gulf country on tourist visas and stayed in a hotel in the vibrant Salmiya area in the capital Kuwait City, a security source said….
IT warned to act now or risk losing access to vital online payment services.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Online businesses in the UK are being warned by Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs) that they could be locked out of secure websites including those used to make salary payments, if they don’t act to update their systems. From 13 June,…
ID numbers of 50m Turks posted online
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Half the population of Turkey potentially opened up to identity theft and privacy violations after information posted to server hosted in Romania A database posted online allegedly contains the personal information of 49 million people on the Turkish citizenship database, potentially…
1.5 million customer data for sale online as Verizon’s anti-data breach unit hacked
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Headline grabbing hacks such as Sony and Talk Talk previously had both personal and corporate data increasingly at risk as these companies failed to keep personal information secure. Last week, hackers stole contact information of business customers of Verizon’s B2B unit,…
Awesome Online Photo Editors
Long ago, well, I guess it really was not that long ago… I bought very expensive photo editing software for my computer every few years. Nowadays, no one has to spend a lot of money to get photo editors, collage makers and that work really well! As a matter of fact,…
Walton Family Foundation: We Must Rethink Online Learning – Education Week
A “sobering” study of virtual charters leads to funding reforms, write Marc Sternberg and Marc Holley of the Walton Family Foundation. View full post on Education Week: Charter Schools #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More The post Walton Family Foundation: We Must Rethink Online Learning – Education Week appeared first on…
Dismantling online child abuse, one byte at a time
He sees human nature at its very worst, and it’s the best job he’s ever had. Detective Senior Sergeant John Michael is at the frontline of stemming the tide of online child abuse as the head of the OCEANZ team (the Online Child Exploitation Across New Zealand), a unit he…
Fighting Online Fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Online fraud spikes during the holiday shopping season, as people searching for the perfect gifts take to cyberspace and head to traditional stores armed with their smartphones. “The Pandora’s box of cyberattacks is about to open,” said Pete Tyrrell, chief operating…