Social engineering

PM Citu urges journalists to be partners in making Romanians responsible, properly informed on vaccination

 Prime Minister Florin Citu is urging journalists, on Press Freedom Day, to continue to be partners in the effort to rightly inform the people and to make Romanians responsible to getting vaccinated in the largest number.

Pentagon warns enemies: Next war?

Austin called for further work on the development of technology and better global military connections in order to "make decisions faster and act faster".
"Our struggle in the next great war will be very different from the previous ones," Austin said at the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii.

Incidents of Social Media Scams Are Snowballing – European Commission

European consumers are increasingly the victims of misleading advertising and social media scams. Through an advertisement, appealing things are offered for an irresistible price. After payment, the order is not delivered, consumers receive products that do not match the advertisement or are stuck with an unwanted subscription. 

Mandatory vaccination – we have gone too far with this freedom thing.

Virologist Dr. Milanko Sekler, lawyer Zora Dobricanin Ikodinovic and high-tech crime expert Sasa Zivanovic spoke for "Jutro" on TV Prva.

They also talked about what is forbidden and what is not, where is the line between freedom and abuse of public speech and whether vaccination should be mandatory.

Bulgaria: New Internet Scam, Fraudsters Collect Personal Data Offering Lucrative Jobs

Scammers collect personal data through fake job advertisements. On behalf of established employers, they offer attractive employment terms, and supposedly "approved" applicants are required to take a photo of an ID card and even send in a selfie with the ID document in hand.

Knowing what we’re up against

"Those informing us are either withholding information or not reporting data from which we can draw useful conclusions." The claim refers to the pandemic. In fact, it refers to the pandemic in Greece and not, for example, in Turkey, where the country's biggest medical association has repeatedly claimed that the government has been making the numbers look better than they are.

Five Telltale Signs that Phone Scammer Calls You

 On the eve of the holidays, the Central Bank of Russia sent a recommendation to banks to inform their customers about the key signs by which a person can recognize phone scammers. "Phone scammers are traditionally increasingly active before the New Year, so it is very important to remind once again how to counter them.

The importance of reliable journalism

The coronavirus crisis highlighted, particularly on World Press Freedom Day, a more humane, and perhaps more useful, perspective regarding the importance of reliable news reporting. At times like this, when societies are dominated by fear, the risk from ignorance and misinformation intensifies while the need for accurate documentation of events and thorough analysis of data grows.

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