cyber crime

Opposition criticised the government for rushing consultation resulting in a complex, unclear framework that disadvantages consumers.

Australia is moving fast to limit the amount of exposure young people have to social media.

The government has introduced broad new anti-scam laws, targeting a billion-dollar cybercrime crisis.

The 2014 was a record year for cyber hacks and data breaches with over 3,000 incidents, including five among the worst on record, a security firm states.

Staving off future terrorist attacks and combating cyber crime have put police and intelligence agencies around the world and in Canada at odds with the privacy of their citizens.

U.K. lawmakers are proposing recommendations that would ban racist trolls from social media websites like Twitter and Facebook after an alleged rise in anti-Semitism recently. However, the move has drawn criticism from rights groups, which have said it’s akin to censorship.

NSA had access to North Korea’s computer networks, supporting the U.S. claim that it was able to track the Sony Pictures hack back to NK.