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Accounts without two factor authenification could be vulnerable to accidental logins by third parties - and sim swapping hacks.

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I 'hacked' someone else's TikTok. Here's how to avoid it happening

When Euronews journalist Aylin Elci set up a TikTok account, she ended up logging into someone else’s. Here’s what you need to know about SIM swapping.

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The French government is preparing to unveil an age certification scheme to block access to pornographic websites for minors.

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"2023 is the end of access to pornographic sites for our children," said Jean-Noël Barrot, the French Minister for Digital Affairs.

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Inrupt co-founder and CTO Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks at the centre stage of the Europe's largest tech conference, the Web Summit, in Lisbon on November 4, 2022.

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21/11/2022

Iranians are turning to VPNs to get around intensified internet restrictions in the wake of protests over Mahsa Amini's death in police custody.

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Amid mass protests and an Internet crackdown, demand for VPNs has surged in Iran - but finding ones that work is a challenge.

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Fraudsters are developing malicious apps to try to steal people's login credentials on Facebook

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Facebook found more than 400 of the malicious apps were on official app stores.

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European countries make up most of the top 10 worldwide for digital quality of life

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Internet Explorer is being replaced by Microsoft Edge.

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The browser, which first launched in 1995 and once dominated the browser wars, is being replaced by the “faster, more secure” Microsoft Edge.

15/06/2022

Germany'si information security office has warned that Kaspersky antivirus software could be "misused" in cyberattacks - but the company denies this claim

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Software by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky could be "misused" by the Russian government, Germany's information security agency claimed on Tuesday.

15/03/2022

Porn sites could face being blocked in the UK if they don't check how old their users are.

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UK government wants to restrict porn by verifying ages - again

Previous attempts to apply age verification to online pornography in the UK ended in failure.

08/02/2022

A man walks past an ads poster at an Internet devices shop in St.Petersburg, Russia

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Euroviews. Why is the European Union trying to break the Internet? | View

The European Council's new proposed cybersecurity directive could have disastrous consequences for both users and businesses, warns the Internet Society's Callum Voge

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Russia is behind 58% of state-sanctioned hacks, according to Microsoft

In its annual report on cybercrime, Microsoft reveals the top three countries targeted by Russian state-sponsored hackers where the United States, Ukraine and the UK.

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ProtonMail said that while it was aginst Swiss law for it to send data to foreign authorities, Swiss courts could decide to force it to do so

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ProtonMail secure email gave activist's IP address to French police

The service said it was compelled to hand over the data by a Swiss court order. It said the content of its encrypted emails would never be accessible by authorities.

07/09/2021

The phones of Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been spyware targets in 2019.

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Macron headed a list of 14 former or current heads of state who were identified as potential targets of the NSO software.

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Supporters outside the trial of Moroccan journalist Omar Radi in September 2020. Radi was one of the alleged victims of government spying using Pegasus spyware.

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Using inflight Wi-Fi could leave you vulnerable.

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Security experts warn that logging in while up in the air could put your personal information at risk.

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The Netherlands said that only one COVCID-19 testing company had been affected.

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Dutch authorities defend COVID-19 test system despite security flaw

An investigation by RTL Nieuws found that citizens could hack into a company website and falsify official COVID-19 test results.

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Thousands of websites were down for almost an hour.

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Fastly outage: How did it break the internet?

"Even though there were specific conditions that triggered this outage, we should have anticipated it," said Fastly.

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Websites around the world crashed after a glitch at Fastly.

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Karina Stan of the Developers Alliance anticipates the next wave of EU-driven internet regulation.

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The North West hospital in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, announced on Monday, 15 February 2021 that it had been targeted by a large-scale cyberattack.

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Three hospital buildings near the city of Lyon have fallen prey this week to hackers using ransomware.

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