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‘Hold Up’: Banana Island Festival with Beyonce is fake news

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • June 23, 2022
The website is selling tickets for hundreds of dollars. A website that emerged online to promote an alleged music festival on Qatar’s Banana Island has been confirmed as fake, Doha…
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Qatar to establish national agency for cybersecurity

  • Sana Hussain
  • September 17, 2020
Qatar, which was hit with the biggest cybercrime in the region in 2017, has approved plans to establish a national cybersecurity agency. A national agency for cybersecurity will soon be…
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Qatari users receive puzzling Twitter notifications for ‘reporting’ amir’s tweets

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • October 20, 2021
Twitter has yet to comment on the matter. Qatari Twitter users have been receiving suspicious notifications from the social media platform claiming that they reported tweets mostly belonging to officials…
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Phone has been ‘monitored for years’, Qatar’s former PM says amid Pegasus scandal

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • July 28, 2021
The Pegasus scandal broke out last week following an Amnesty International investigation that identified hundreds who were selected for potential targeting using the spyware tool. Qatar’s former prime minister, Hamad…
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Student scammed for QR 6,000 while ordering pizza online

  • Sana Hussain
  • February 23, 2021
With scam attacks on the rise, it’s essential to protect yourself from fraudsters.  A Qatar University student who ordered a pizza worth QR 31 was shocked to see that his…
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Microsoft, Google join legal fight against Israeli spyware following Al Jazeera hacking operation

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • December 23, 2020
The tech giants’ involvement in the legal battle began amid reports of the Israeli company hacking the phones of over 30 Al Jazeera journalists. Microsoft and Google are among a…
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Combatting smartphone cyberattacks in Qatar

  • Menatalla Ibrahim
  • June 28, 2020
By Menatalla Ibrahim Since January this year, the number of reported malicious attacks on smartphones in Qatar has reached 11,883 according to research by Kaspersky. Kuwait, Qatar’s neighboring country, had…
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Hackers take aim at Qatar by publishing fake news on QNA

  • Doha News Team
  • May 24, 2017
Qatar’s Emir. Credit: QNA An “unknown entity” has hacked Qatar’s official news agency, and is responsible for publishing a false statement attributed to the Emir, the Government Communications Office (GCO) has…
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Grand Hyatt in Qatar among hotels targeted for financial data

  • Peter Kovessy
  • January 18, 2016
Guests who used a credit or debit card at the Qatar hotel between mid-August and December 2015 are being asked to review their statements for suspicious transactions.
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