In Depth: Cryptic UAE Cybercrime Laws – Do not assume compliance… Threats? Lustful Texts? Public Morality? Discussing news? Privacy? The UAE Cybercrime laws render all visitors to Dubai in violation on arrival. Anyone could be targeted for arrest during their stay in the UAE. Expert Radha Stirling has dealt with dozens of cybercrime cases since...Read More
Ron Gusek, CEO of Liberty Energy, stops by the Energy News Beat Podcast. This was a lot of fun with Ron as we covered his latest earnings reports from Liberty Energy, and the exciting direction for Liberty in the AI and Data Center space. In fact, as we were talking, I got the idea to...Read More
The shutdown of DarkMarket in January 2021 was billed by triumphant investigators as the world’s largest illegal marketplace bust. More than 2,400 drug dealers and half a million customers used the dark web site to do business, pushing 4,600 Bitcoin and 12,800 Monero through the marketplace’s servers, amounts of crypto then worth in excess of €140...Read More
The European Commission – the same regulatory body that slaps big fines on tech heavyweights like Apple and Meta and issues AI safety guidelines – was hacked in March, with attackers stealing a ton of data. In a blog post detailing the attack, the EC said it had discovered a cyber attack on its Europa.eu...Read More
Police say they are launching a new effort across the city aimed at stopping scammers before more people lose money. SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Police Department is warning seniors about a surge in cryptocurrency scams that can drain thousands of dollars in minutes, often with little to no chance of recovery. Police say...Read More
Telia Finland warns of corporate risks of ‘shadow AI’ Telia Finland has warned of the potential risks of “shadow AI” by company staff to their employer’s data security. The operator says Artificial Intelligence capabilities and virtual assistants have arrived in businesses so quickly that they have brought with them new safeguarding issues. Pirkko Filtness, director...Read More
A legal battle is playing out this week between an artificial intelligence company and a grieving mom claiming her 14-year-old son took his life over being in love with an AI chatbot. “I miss him all the time, constantly,” said the mother, Megan Garcia, of her late son Sewell Setzer III. That scene—of defendants Character...Read More
Washington DC [US] March 30 (ANI): The House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at curbing the smuggling of advanced American semiconductors to foreign adversaries, according to a release by the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (SCCCP). According to the SCCCP release, the proposed Chip Security Act, introduced last year, comes...Read More
A video, claiming to show FBI Director Kash Patel dancing to a Bollywood song, amid the ongoing controversy over an alleged email hack, is being widely shared on social media. The clip surfaced at the same time as reports that a hacking group had targeted Patel’s personal email account, leading people to believe that it...Read More
Africa’s cybersecurity market is expanding steadily, valued at about $0.68 billion in 2025 and projected to reach $1.44 billion by 2031. But the real story is not market size; it’s urgency. From what I see across the region, industries are digitising faster than they are securing themselves. Cybersecurity is no longer a back-office IT concern....Read More
