June 26 is United Nations Charter Day, the date on which the foundational document for the global organization was signed by its original members in San Francisco in 1945. It offers a moment to reflect upon the very first resolution adopted by the United Nations...
AIWS City will support political and social innovations by presenting them with AIWS Rewards based on effectiveness and benefits for improving societies. This is a part of the United Nations Centennial Initiative. On June 26, 2022, Global Enlightenment Leaders...
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...
There is no such thing as a safe place in the cyberworld: Cyber researchers have told Reuters that Iranian hackers have broken into more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian...
By Allan M. Cytryn, principal at Risk Masters International, and John E. Savage, An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Both are members of The Boston Global Forum. We recommend a series of short- and long-term actions to block cyberattacks in...
Hackers, presumably directed by the Chinese government, have attacked the Web site of Vietnam's two biggest airports and its national airline, Vietnam Airlines, with pro-Chinese messages about China's attempts to take control of most of the South China Sea. The...
Google will point Web searches toward anti-radicalization Web sites after a study shows more clearly than before the role of the search engine, rather than social media, in drawing people to extremist material on the Web. The study is one of the first to...
Bloomberg reported July 27 that experts had warned the Democratic National Committee last fall that its computer network was open to attacks by state-sponsored and other hackers but it didn’t follow the cyberexperts' security advice. The revelation is...