Microsoft warns ransomware cyber-attack is a wake-up call
A cyber-attack that has hit 150 countries since Friday should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake-up call", Microsoft says.
It blamed governments for storing data on software vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers.
It says the latest virus exploits a flaw in Microsoft Windows identified by, and stolen from, US intelligence.
There are fears of more "ransomware" attacks as people begin work on Monday, although few have been reported so far.
Many firms have had experts working over the weekend to prevent new infections. The virus took control of users' files and demanded $300 (£230) payments to restore access.
Forced into porn: Japan moves to stop women being coerced into sex films
Reports of women tricked into X-rated appearances has prompted authorities to confront the booming porn industry
When Kurumin Aroma was approached on Tokyo street four years ago and asked if she was interested in “glamour modelling”, she spied an opportunity to realise her dream of becoming a TV celebrity.
“The talent scout had a proper business card and spoke very respectfully, so I thought he was someone I could trust,” Aroma, who uses an assumed name in public, told the Guardian.
But months later, the 26-year-old became one of an alarming number of Japanese women who say they have been forced into appearing in pornographic films by unscrupulous, and unregulated, production companies.
Cyber attack: Hackers in China try to seize control of WannaCry ransomware's 'kill switch'
The attempt fails but could have allowed the kill switch to be disabled, expert says
Hackers in China tried to seize control of the ‘kill switch’ used to prevent many of the WannaCry ransomware attacks that have been causing chaos across the world.
A 22-year-old British cyber security analyst discovered a website domain name in the code of a ‘worm’ used to infect computers with ransomware, which took over PCs and demanded money to return control.
When he registered the domain name, it activated a ‘kill switch’ in the coding. Every time the malware first infected a computer, it would try to find the website. If it could not, it would carry out the attack but if it did, it would shut down.
Hong Kong 'Snowden refugees' face deportation: lawyer
A group of refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are facing deportation after the city's authorities rejected their bid for protection, their lawyer said Monday.
The impoverished Philippine and Sri Lankan refugees helped the former National Security Agency contractor evade authorities in 2013 by hiding him in their cramped homes after he initiated one of the largest data leaks in US history.
They have spent years hoping the government would recognise their cases and save them from being sent back to their home countries, where they say they were persecuted.
However, immigration authorities rejected their protection claims Monday.
I Coast: Gunfire erupts in Abidjan, Bouake amid mutiny
Fresh unrest erupts as army press operation aimed at ending a mutiny by soldiers demanding bonus payments.
Gunfire was heard early on Monday in Ivory Coast's two main cities, according to witnesses, as the military pressed an operation aimed at ending a mutiny by soldiers demanding bonus payments.
In the commercial capital of Abidjan, shots were heard from two military camps in the east of the city, a nearby resident told the Reuters news agency. Frequent gunshots were also heard in the country's second city of Bouake.
"I've been hearing the sound of Kalashnikovs and a heavier weapon," one Abidjan resident told Reuters.
THE WOMAN ARRIVED at the U.S.-Mexico border with her daughter in late April. “From what I had heard about the U.S., it was supposed to be a country that practices showing love to their fellow man. But what I have experienced with my daughter was horrible,” she wrote a few days later, after she was transferred from Border Patrol custody to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
An official took me who humiliated me, throwing all of my things into the trash, even the medicines of my daughter and the food that, with much work, I had brought. When I walked in to give my declaration the officials laughed at me because I arrived wet and with mud up to my abdomen. I asked them to please allow me to change my daughter’s clothes, but they wouldn’t let me. … We were still wet with mud. My sadness was that my daughter was shaking from the cold, wet and thirsty. But they would not give us water or food.
Japan wakes up to global 'ransomware' cyberattack
The global "ransomware" cyberattack hit computers at 600 locations in Japan, but appeared to cause no major problems as Japanese started their workday Monday even as the attack caused chaos elsewhere.
Nissan Motor Co confirmed some units had been targeted, but there was no major impact on its business.
Hitachi spokeswoman Yuko Tainiuchi said emails were slow or not getting delivered, and files could not be opened. The company believes the problems are related to the ransomware attack, although no ransom appears to have been demanded so far. They were installing software to fix the problems.
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