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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Rights experts slam ‘laughable’ NSO claims against Qatar, BDS amid Pegasus scandal
Journalists, activists and several public figures were among those targeted in a campaign using Israel’s Pegasus spyware. Co-founder and CEO of Israel’s surveillance company NSO Group Shalev Hulio has claimed…
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Al Jazeera combats major cyberattacks
The Qatar-based network was able to monitor and fend off all hacking attacks that took place this week. Qatar’s flagship media network Al Jazeera said it was subjected to a…
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Leaked LinkedIn data is being sold for Bitcoins online: report
A wave of ‘hacktivism’ struck a number of social media platforms recently and LinkedIn is the newest on the list. Days after Facebook’s massive data breach, CyberNews reported a cyber…
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Spygate: how the UAE and Saudi are using spyware to silence journalists
The UAE and Saudi have been accused of hacking at least 36 Al Jazeera journalists, and one journalist from the London-based Al Araby TV, with sophisticated electronic spyware developed by…
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Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists hacked by Saudi and UAE
An investigation reveals that over 36 journalists’ phones have been hacked since October 2019 using Israeli spyware. Al Jazeera journalists were hacked using a private intelligence firm software in a…
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Combatting smartphone cyberattacks in Qatar
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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Alleged QNB hack exposes personal data of Qatar residents
The 1.4GB file that was uploaded online today contains nine main folders, some of which are named "Al Jazeera," "Al Thani," "Defence and etc," "SPY, Intelligence," and "Mukhabarat," which is Qatar's intelligence service.
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Report: Qatar must be more proactive to protect against cyber threats
The 2015 Midyear Security Report, which analyzes cyber security trends, said private and government organizations need to put adequate measures in place to counter attacks, focusing on early discovery so affected systems can be restored quickly.
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