Sri Lanka passes new law to regulate online content
Colombo, Sri Lanka Reuters Sri Lanka’s lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists allege will muzzle free speech. The Online Safety Bill proposes jail terms for content that a five-member commission considers illegal and making social media platforms such […]
Cyber fraud cost Florida Baptists more than $US700,000
United StatesRNS Staff at the Florida Baptist Convention thought they were sending mission money to help pay for church planting. Then the money disappeared. “The Florida Baptist Convention continues to work with federal and state investigators, our internal and external auditors to recover over $700,000 in funds stolen from the convention through cyber-targeting,” according to […]
Cyber crime: Asian tech workers held captive in scam factories
ANURADHA NAGARAJ and NANCHANOK WONGSAMUTH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how tech-savvy Asians are being lured with fake job adverts and then forced to defraud strangers through crypto and romance scams…
Global crackdown on organised crime after high-tech US-Australia sting
Canberra, AustraliaReuters US and Australian authorities hacked into an app used by criminals to read millions of encrypted messages, leading to hundreds of arrests of suspected organised crime figures in 18 countries, Australian officials said on Tuesday. “Operation Ironside” by Australian police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation ensnared suspects in Australia, Asia, South […]
UN warns cybercrime on rise during pandemic
AP The UN disarmament chief says the COVID-19 pandemic is moving the world toward increased technological innovation and online collaboration, but “cybercrime is also on the rise, with a 600% increase in malicious emails during the current crisis.” Izumi Nakamitsu told an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday that “there have also […]