What is Hacktivism? Stemming from the words “Hack” and “Activism”, hacktivism is generally understood as the illegal or legally ambiguous use of hacking techniques to achieve a specific political agenda. Examples of techniques employed by hacktivists include website defacements, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and leaking private information. #OpsWakeUp21 by Hacktivist Group “Anonymous Malaysia“ To provide […]
Tag: Cybersecurity
Our Comments for the IGF Internet We Want Process
On January 9, 2024, the Leadership Panel (LP) of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) called on global stakeholders, including all governments, the private sector, civil society and technical and academic communities, to come together to contribute to the Internet We Want (IWW) Process in pursuit of a shared vision for the Internet. This […]
NetMission Digest – Issue #8: Submarine Communication Cables (Monday, February 12, 2024)
Welcome to the eighth edition of NetMission news and policy digest, where we transform some tech news and policy updates of the month into a bite-size reader for you. This article introduces the submarine communication cable system and its latest developments in the APAC region. On January 17, the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership published a […]
NetMission Academy 2024 Session 4: Cybersecurity, Privacy & Safer Internet – Summary
The NetMission Academy’s fourth session on “Cybersecurity, Privacy & Safer Internet” was successfully organized on January 25, 2024. The session ran smoothly thanks to the facilitation of Luke Teoh and Qurra Tul Ain Nisar. The assigned working group presented two case studies: (1) Aadhaar Data Breach (2) The 2023 NIFT Cybersecurity Breach, and also fruitful […]
How The Myanmar Cybersecurity Bill 2022 Threatens Rights To Privacy, Freedom Of Expression, And Access To Information – Jeremy Z. M.
Background The State Administrative Council (SAC) started to circulate a draft Cyber Security Law in February 2021 with the intention to replace the Electronic Transition Law (ETL) 2004, which was last amended on February 25, 2014. The revised draft of the Cyber Security Law was circulated in the following year in January 2022. This article […]