Chinese hackers likely behind decade-long cyberattack on Southeast Asia, India: report
Hackers, most likely from China, have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India uninterrupted for a decade, researchers at Internet security firm FireEye Inc. said in a report released Monday. FireEye said the cyberespionage operations dated back to at least 2005 ...
Rebranded as democracy advocate, ex-coup leader Buhari had tech leg up in Nigeria polls
Technology played a decisive role in helping Muhammadu Buhari become the first Nigerian to oust a sitting president at the ballot box, from social media campaigning to biometric machines preventing the widespread rigging that marred past polls. Three decades after seizing power in a military ...
Police receive 110 reports related to 'revenge porn' in one month
A survey conducted by police between Nov. 27 and Dec. 31 found that victims in 65 cases were in their 20s or younger, while the largest group of perpetrators were in their 30s.
Smartphones and social network services, including Facebook, are allowing perpetrators of revenge porn to take photos, post them online and share them easily, experts say, adding that people should be careful in revealing private information or photos on the Internet. Experts warn that it is ...
School kids weak at filtering data to produce own conclusions: study
The nation's primary and junior high school students lack the skills to sift through and link information from multiple sources to solve problems, even though they can easily understand spoon-fed, pre-filtered information, a government study has found. In what education officials called the first test ...
NHK beats commercial TV stations to simulcast punch
NHK's announcement earlier this month that it will start trial simultaneous broadcasts of its programming on the Internet signaled a new era in TV broadcasting. Commercial broadcasters, which have yet to offer such services and are thus intimidated by the giant public broadcaster's move, are ...
Rakuten sues firm over 'stealth marketing' that plays up bogus orders on portal
The Rakuten online shopping portal has been plagued by "stealth marketing," whereby more than 100 retailers have reportedly paid an Osaka-based firm to place fake orders and post bogus customer reviews so their products are displayed prominently on Rakuten's website. Rakuten has sued DC8 Co., ...
The Islamic State group has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its "brothers residing in America" to kill them. The Pentagon said after the information was posted on the Internet ...
North Korea Web outage was reprisal for Sony hack, U.S. lawmaker says
A December blackout of North Korea's Internet was retaliation for that nation's hacking of computers at Sony Corp.'s Hollywood studio, a top U.S. lawmaker on cybersecurity issues said without identifying who was responsible. Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland ...
South Korea blames North Korea for December hack on nuclear operator
South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday blamed North Korea for cyber attacks against the country's nuclear reactor operator last December following a probe into Internet addresses used in the hacking. The conclusion comes less than a week after a hacker believed to be behind the cyber ...
Thailand's military government warned women on Monday against posting "selfie" photos of the lower half of their breasts — a social media trend that has gone viral — saying their actions could violate the country's computer crime laws. Thailand's 2007 Computer Crimes Act bans any ...
It was no surprise that when writer Haruki Murakami started a temporary ask-anything website he was swamped with so many messages that he had to suspend the site. But is the forum a vehicle for self-promotion?
