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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...

Hackers break into allegedly safe Telegram message service

  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...

Action plan to block cyberattacks in Vietnam

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...