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UK Election 2019: Tories threaten Channel 4 as Johnson snubs Climate Change debate By Newsdesk Team European Press Centre Málaga The Conservative Party is embroiled in a battle it doesn't need with broadcaster Channel 4 over it´s decision to "empty chair" Boris Johnson during its election debate on Climate Change and substitute the PM with an ice sculpture An offer from Minister Michael Gove offering to take his place was quickly blanked as C4 took pains to explain that the debate was for "leaders" The Conservative party has written to media legislator Ofcom urging they to take action against Channel 4, the Party has accused the broadcaster of breaking its duty to be impartial and citing other alleged examples of bias. They went on to say that the ice stunt on the PM's empty podium was a "provocative partisan stunt" - while the Labour party has simply accused Mr Johnson of "hiding from scrutiny". The Conservatives have also threatened to...

GEOCRIME: Protecting users from government-backed hacking and disinformation Syndicated by Newsdesk Team European Press Centre Málaga The Hacker News has reoprted that over 12,000 Google Users Hit by Government Hackers in 3rd Quarter of 2019. As part of its active efforts to protect billions of online users, Google identified and warned over 12,000 of its users who were targeted by a government-backed hacking attempt in the third quarter of this year. According to a report published by Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) , more than 90 percent of the targeted users were hit with "credential phishing emails" that tried to trick victims into handing over access to their Google account. Over 12,000 Google Users Hit by Government Hackers in 3rd Quarter of 2019 Google's TAG tracks over 270 government-backed hacking groups from over 50 countries that are involved in intelligence collection, stealing intellectual property, destructive cyber attacks, targeting dissidents, j...

Europe to Get New Executive Next Week Amid Shift to Geopolitics Syndicated by GEO´ Newsdesk Team European Press Centre Málaga BLOOMBERG The incoming president of the European Union’s executive arm vowed to shift the bloc’s focus onto geopolitics over the next five years, pledging sweeping legislative proposals in areas ranging from climate change to artificial intelligence. “This is an unsettled world where too many powers only speak the language of confrontation and unilateralism,” Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, in a thinly veiled reference to Donald Trump’s administration. “But it’s also a world where millions of people are taking to the streets to protest against corruption or to demand democratic change.” The former German defense minister was confirmed by the EU Parliament at the helm of the European Commission on Wednesday. She will be in charge of proposing and enforcing regulation across a vast single market stretching from the Arctic circle to t...

AccorHotels Subsidiary Exposes Hotels and Travelers in Massive Data Leak Synicated by GEO´Newsdesk Team European News Centre Málaga Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor ’s research team discovered a data breach belonging to Gekko Group, a subsidiary of Accor Hotels. Based in France, Gekko Group is a leading European B2B hotel booking platform that also owns several smaller hospitality brands. These include Teldar Travel & Infinite Hotel, the two brands most exposed in the database discovered by our team. However, some data from other Gekko Group-owned brands were also exposed. The database in question was huge, containing over 1 terabyte of data. This included data from Gekko Group brands and their clients, as well as external websites and platforms which their systems communicate with, such as Booking.com. This breach represents a serious lapse in data security by Gekko Group and its subsidiaries, compromising the privacy of their customers, clients, AccorHotels, and the bus...

AFP: Czech Intel Report Highlights Russian, Chinese Spying Syndicated by GEO´ PRChannel Team European News Centre Málaga [ AFP on November 26, 2019] AFP report that Russian and Chinese spies repeatedly targeted the Czech state last year, the country's intelligence service (BIS) said in its 2018 report published yesterday [Tuesday, 26th November, 2019] detailing cyber-attacks and disinformation. The report comes just over a month after the BIS and Czech police announced they had busted a Russian espionage network operating through its Prague embassy, launching cyber-attacks on Czech and foreign targets. Russia was probably behind an attack on the Czech foreign ministry's non- classified computer network, said the BIS report, published on its website. "The attackers tried to ensure permanent access to the affected system," it said. And a Chinese cyber-espionage group was probably behind an attack on the foreign ministry's non-classified network using malware, the B...

'Meat: A Threat To Our Planet' - BBC Documentary Tonight 25 November 2019 @ 2200 CET  There has been a lot of talk in the Newsroom this morning about tonights [Monday, 25 November, 2019] UK BBC screening of 'Meat: A Threat To Our Planet' Presenter Liz Bonnin travels around the globe on what the broadcaster has described as an 'ambitious and sometimes dangerous mission' to discover the truth. Bonnin visits Texan mega-farms, as well as the Amazon rainforest, where she discovers how beef farming is a leading cause of deforestation. The reporter also meets the scientists and entrepreneurs urgently looking for solutions. At a university in California, Liz puts her hand directly into the stomach of a cow – all in the name of reducing methane emissions" "In North Carolina she meets an entrepreneur who’s using his manure to power local homes. And in San Francisco, she becomes one of the first people in the world to try a lab-made chicken nugget – a product th...

CyberThreat 2019 Summit: Nov 25-26 PR Channel Team Málaga Press & Technology Centre CyberThreat 2019 brings together the UK and Europe's cyber security community. Designed for security practitioners and spanning the full spectrum of offensive and defensive disciplines, the summit has a strong technical emphasis, including case studies from the field, new security tools and encouraging collaboration on bleeding edge techniques. The two-day conference is hosted by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and SANS Institute and takes place at Riverbank Park Plaza, London. CyberThreat 2019 evidences the UK Government’s commitment to equip practitioners with the skills and knowledge required to defend against cyber threats and also addresses the cyber skills gap, by developing and growing talent. CyberThreat aims to deliver the best technical conference in Europe for cyber security practitioners. In addition to presentations from world-renowned cyber security experts and risi...