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Why leading western economies are calling out China for “malicious cyber activities”
Australia has joined the United States and the United Kingdom in calling out China for “malicious cyber activities” after a massive hack of Microsoft’s email system
In a statement, Australia’s Ministers for Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Defence say they are deeply concerned about China’s alleged use of criminal hackers.
The statement says “Australia calls on all countries – including China – to act responsibly in cyberspace.”
The Ministers say China has engaged individuals to “carry out cyber-enabled intellectual property theft for personal gain and to provide commercial advantage”.
Microsoft’s Exchange platform was hacked back in January, with numerous private firms attributing teh attack to Beijing.
It is only now that countries including Australia, America and England have publically called out China for the attack.
The United States says it is joining other nations in “holding the People’s Republic of China accountable” for what it described as a “pattern of irresponsible, disruptive, and destabilising behaviour in cyberspace”.
WhatsApp ramps up privacy features to prevent subscriber loss
The world’s two billion plus WhatsApp users will soon have greater privacy controls with new platform changes on the way.
Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the new WhatsApp updates in a Facebook post earlier this week.
Users will be able to make a stealthy exit from group conversations without the rest of the participants being notified.
Other changes include allowing users the ability to check messages without others knowing and controlling who sees when they are online.
These functions have been flagged as being rolled out to WhatsApp users over the next month.
Even more significant to user privacy is a function that is still under development.
Here, WhatsApp users can allow their messages to be viewed only once with an added screenshot blocking feature.
This will prevent other users saving their communication onto their phones for future reference.
The changes have been announced after Meta was scrutinised last year for their data sharing practices after an update of its Terms of Service.
Users were concerned over suggestions WhatsApp user data would be shared and utilised by parent company Meta.
WhatsApp has always boasted about the benefits of its end-to-end encryption preventing.
The news that WhatsApp planned to share user data more widely with Meta shook users’ faith in the platform.
As the third most popular social media platform, it seems Meta is keen to retain this market share by increasing its privacy features.
Some would say this is both to allay security fears and to prevent them from moving to other popular messaging apps such as Signal.
As frustrated customers take their anger out on the remaining airport checkin staff, airline executives are being forced onto the front line to face customers.
The return of summer in Europe has been overshadowed by travel chaos, leaving passengers frustrated and often out of pocket.
Thousands of people have been left to battle airport queues that last hours, long delays and thousands of cancellations.
Airports and airlines face staff shortages forcing them to reduce the number of scheduled flights – often at short notice.
It’s a global problem, with airports and airlines rushing to hire back the thousands of positions they axed at the start of covid.
But how do you do it, and how long until things return to normal?
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