Since 2019, Youtubers from all around the world were being targeted by phishing scams that made them lose control of their social media accounts. The accounts that were being hijacked were consequently being sold online for very minimal prices. Google has a Threat Analysis Group (TAG) which on October 20,2021 posted a report on the issue […]
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The National Registry of Persons of Argentina (Registro Nacional de las Personas) also known as the RENAPER is the Argentinian government’s database of the country’s population which records basic information of all its citizens. The database is linked to numerous government agencies that use it to access personal information of the citizens for any and […]
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Around the world, and more specifically in India, disinformation is spreading and becoming a successful phenomenon of deception. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how fast and wide information can spread: so fast, that the phenomenon has been given the name, “infodemic”. This disinformation, in Indian context, is broadly categorized into two — fake news and […]
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At the Security Analyst Summit that took place on September 30,2021, during which the security company Kaspersky Lab released a report on a new cyber espionage group called GhostEmperor who have been using new techniques to launch cyberattacks on servers. The main target of GhostEmperor is government and telecommunications services in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia even […]
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On February 14 and 25, 2021, an advertisement about PM Modi’s Awas Scheme was featured in newspapers such as Prabhat Khabar and Sanmarg. The ad took up half of the page of the newspapers prominently featuring PM Modi and a woman. The text in Bengali roughly translates to how the woman along with 24,00,000 families […]
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On 4th October,2021, around 9:30 PM, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp collectively went down for billions of users all over the world. This caused a worldwide panic and uproar for virtually everyone who uses these applications. The servers were not just down for users but for Facebook employees as well who were unable to access the […]
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On September 29, 2021, the Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube amended its community guidelines to fight misinformation related to health and particularly vaccines. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were at the forefront of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and combating misinformation with regards to COVID-19, its effects and vaccines used. YouTube released these updated guidelines […]
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There will hardly be any person in human history who has changed the lives of such a large number of people in a single lifetime as Mahatma Gandhi. There are two kinds of greatness of man. One, purely intellectual or artistic, that sets its owner apart, no matter how much it is appreciated or admired. […]
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On June 22,2021, news broke that LinkedIn, after being a victim of a data leak of 500 million users, was once again left red-faced after a hacker claimed to have data of 700 million users. The hacker going by the name “God User” was looking to sell the data of these 700 million users on […]
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This year when legislators in Italy came up with a bill to make hate crime against LGBT community punishable, the Vatican nation got divided. The bill was brought after repeated verbal and physical assaults on the community, but many in the country opposed it as they were not able to accept LGBT norms in a […]
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