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Bucket of fraud? Fake KFC website scams customers in Qatar

Online scammers replicate real delivery services, pocketing payments without delivering orders. Customers in Qatar have fallen prey to a deceptive online scam masquerading as the official Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)…

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Digital apartheid: how Palestinian voices are being suppressed online

Waze, the navigation app, previously called FreeMap Israel, has headquarters in Ra’anana city, which Palestinians were forcefully evicted from in 1948. In early September, Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a plethora of…

3 min

News

beIN Media ‘grateful’ for operation to shut down nine piracy websites in Egypt

Most of the websites operated between 2018 and 2021, attracting millions of views. beIN Media Group and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) confirmed the shutting down of nine…

4 min

Twitter’s security is seriously flawed, according to ex-security chief

The whistleblower claims senior executives are actively hiding the company’s security issues. Twitter is under heavy scrutiny this week after its ex-head of security claimed the company has major security…

2 min

15 million cyber threats targeting Qatar blocked this year: report

The yearly cybersecurity report from Trend Micro offers data on how organisations in the country should prepare for future threats. More than 15 million cyber threats in Qatar have been…

3 min

Blockchain: a bigger idea in need of wider and expanded thinking

Blockchain is a growing ‘forest’ of trust, cyber safety, audit and regulations for securing the best, transparent and safest records. Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process…

2 min

Culture
News

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

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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News

Qatar to establish national agency for cybersecurity

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

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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