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Twitter steps up its anti-terrorism efforts

Twitter  has suspended 235,000 terrorist-related accounts over the last six months, a doubling of its  suspension rate. The Wall Street Journal reported that "Twitter, which relies mostly on users to flag content before it takes action, said in a blog post it has...

Hackers claim to sell NSA hacking code

  Computer hackers assert that they're selling high-powered hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency. CNN reports that computer code -- whose purpose is to break into other computers -- was leaked to the public  on Aug. 12 by an anonymous...

New Pakistan cybersecurity law alarms rights activists

  Rejecting the criticism of rights groups, Pakistan has  enacted a cybersecurity law that grants sweeping powers to the government to block private information that they deem illegal, or possibly, simply just critical of the government. The National Assembly...

Japanese official says relations with China getting worse

  Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that ties with China are "significantly deteriorating"after Chinese vessels repeatedly entered disputed waters in the East China Sea. Mr. Kushida had called the Chinese ambassador to Japan to protest what the...

The Internet looks worse and worse

  More and more people are backing off from the Internet, frightened of cybercrime, privacy violations and very valid fears about the ever-more-glaring inadequacies of cybersecurity. The Guardian reported: "When cybersecurity professionals converged in Las Vegas...

Germany, Facebook in tiff over criminal investigations

Reuters has reported that Facebook is rejecting claims by German officials that the social-media company was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations of recent violent incidents in the country . The company says that many of the  government's...