For the past week, England and parts of Northern Ireland have been gripped by unrest, with communities experiencing heightened tensions and an extensive police presence....
An update regarding the cyberattack on Alt News has brought up cybersecurity news in Indian media once more. After focusing on Indian news agency ANI News for a few hours,...
In the media, misinformation is regularly discussed, primarily in relation to politics and is often used interchangeably with fake news. Even though these are major problems,...
The hackers targeted Ukrainian radio operator TAVR Media on Thursday to spread fake news that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was hospitalized and is in a critical...
Children as young as five use internet channels for a variety of activities, so it isn't just adults who are essentially living online. The epidemic hastened the adoption...
Telegram messenger has become increasingly crucial in the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, since it is widely used by both hackers and cybercriminals. According...
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in its latest published bulletin, provides an outline of the entire “coordinated influence operation” that its staff tracked in...
Most cybersecurity leaders recognize the usefulness of data, but data is merely information. What if the information you've been given is actually false? Or it is deception?...
Earlier this week, in a press conference, Facebook closed two misinformation networks related to Russia, one of which was associated with the French military. Facebook has accused...
Cybersecurity experts had a lot to say about possible cybersecurity threats in the USA Black Hat Conference.
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US Presidential Elections
As the US awaits...
While the Coronavirus pandemic has practically driven people to stay locked up in their homes and spend a lot more (in some cases almost all) of their time online, the possibilities...
Owing to the lockdown due to the outbreak of the global pandemic Covid-19, people are once again resorting to their go-to messaging app – WhatsApp to spread misinformation...
The health officials and government authorities are trying their best to inform the public about the safety precautions amid the Coronavirus epidemic. But these health initiatives...
Beware! People who have blind faith in the internet and tend to believe almost anything that they view or come across online, for there has surfaced a new medium for fearless...
Yes, Bank filed a police complaint against fake news stating that misinformation was posted on social media concerning the bank's finance. The complaint was filed at Mumbai...
A US-based non-profit journalism school, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, compiled a list of more than 500 websites "spreading false or misleading information" which...
'The internet is stacked with fake news sites in the present times,' says the research of Domain Tools, a security analyst company. The company scrutinized some top news...
French voters are being deluged with false stories on social media ahead of the country’s presidential election, though the onslaught of “junk news” is not as severe as that...
WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a new service called Checkpoint Tipline, for Indians to combat the fake news ahead of General elections beginning this month.
The...
A team of Indian students from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi has developed an app WhatsFarzi for verifying a piece of fake news by using...