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(Cybersecurity) Instagram implements ‘Security Checkup’ to help users recover compromised accounts

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Instagram introduced a new security feature dubbed “Security Checkup” to help users to recover their accounts that have been...
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(Cybersecurity) HelloKitty ransomware gang targets vulnerable SonicWall devices

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: BleepingComputer became aware that the recent wave of attacks targeting vulnerable SonicWall devices was carried out by HelloKitty ransomware...
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(USA) Shortly after Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January 2019, TIME magazine ran a cover that depicted Speaker of the...

Molly E. Reynolds and Jackson Gode write for Brookings: Shortly after Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January 2019, TIME magazine ran a cover that depicted...
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(USA/China) Responding to the PRC’s Destabilizing and Irresponsible Behavior in Cyberspace

US Department of State writes: The United States and countries around the world are holding the People’s Republic of China (PRC) accountable for its...
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(Encrypted messaging) Encrypted messaging has become a very difficult business. Despite their reach, it’s hard to make money from messaging apps. And their key...

Anastasia Kapetas writes for The Strategist: Encrypted messaging has become a very difficult business. Despite their reach, it’s hard to make money from messaging apps....
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(Asia Pacific) A new database tracks incursions and crackdowns on journalists’ capacity to report

OLIVIA PIRIE-GRIFFITHS writes for The Interpreter: The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an alarming impact on press freedom. Over the past 18 months, governments...
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(Russia) The subtext of the country’s new security strategy reveals a regime beset by suspicion and insecurity

IAN HILL writes for The Interpreter: “The weak get beaten,” declared Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2004 after the Beslan tragedy. Russia’s recently-unveiled new National Security Strategy bears the...
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(Pakistan/Afghanistan) Pakistan’s foreign ministry describes Kabul’s decision to recall diplomats ‘unfortunate and regrettable’ after ambassador’s daughter abducted

Al Jazeera writes: Pakistan’s foreign ministry has termed the Afghan government’s decision to recall its ambassador and senior diplomats from its embassy in Islamabad “unfortunate...
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(Afghanistan) Fifteen diplomatic missions call for ‘urgent end’ to offensives, hours after Doha meeting failed to agree on a ceasefire

Al Jazeera writes: Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul have joined hands to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan,...
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(Ethiopia) Latest phase a milestone in controversial Blue Nile hydropower project long opposed by downriver countries Egypt and Sudan

Al Jazeera writes: Ethiopia has completed the filling of a massive, controversial dam on the Blue Nile river for a second year, state media...
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(South Africa) Former president, jailed over contempt of court, faces separate corruption charges stemming from a 1999 weapons sale

Al Jazeera writes: The long-running corruption trial of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma, whose imprisonment on a separate charge sparked days of deadly unrests and...
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(South Africa) The ANC has failed to dismantle the oppressive economic structures of apartheid and as a result, people are losing faith in democracy

Tafi Mhaka writes for Al Jazeera: At the 47th G7 summit held in the United Kingdom in June, South Africa was the only African...
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(South Africa) President Ramaphosa joins clean-up efforts after riots, as his gov’t warns against racial conflict and vigilantism in the aftermath

Al Jazeera writes: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has joined post-riot clean-up efforts as his government warned against vigilantism and sought to avert racial conflict...
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(Space) A European Robotic Arm to handle the Space Station

ESA writes: The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is set for launch on a Proton rocket to the International Space Station on 21 July at 16:58 CEST....
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(Lebanon) Can youth bring about radical reform?

Al Jazeera writes: In the third episode of Generation Change, we travel to Lebanon to see how young organisers are mobilising to halt one of...
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(Pakistan/Afghanistan) Pakistan’s Support to Taliban is Behind the Escalating Violence in Afghanistan

Arvind Gupta writes for VIF: At the initiative of Uzbek President Shavket Miriziev, a high-level conference was held in Tashkent on 15-16 July 2021...
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