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The cost of calling home

If you’re living thousands of miles from home, how do you keep in touch, especially when your loved ones don’t have reliable internet? There’s a growing market across Africa and beyond for apps helping to cut the costs of international calls to older phones. And some operators ha ...  Afficher plus

Germany turns to India for skilled workers

Germany is in the throes of a demographic crisis, in which there are not enough young people entering the labour market to replace those who are retiring. There is an annual net loss of 400,000 to the workforce and the shortage is particularly acute in many of the traditional cra ...  Afficher plus

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A hacking group called Hive has been hacked by the US authorities
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The hackers have been hacked - a prolific international ransomware operation has been shut down by US, German and Dutch officials. The criminal network, Hive, is said to have targeted over 1,500 victims worldwide in the past 18 months and extorted over $100 million. FBI director ...  Afficher plus

Uber's computer systems are hacked
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The ride-hailing company said it was responding to a 'cybersecurity incident' and that several internal systems had been affected. Margi Murphy is cybersecurity reporter at Bloomberg News and updates us on the story. Why do we have such an attachment to some of our favourite bran ...  Afficher plus

Money Box Live: Fighting Fraud
Money Box

The UK is the fraud capital of the world with hundreds of thousands of victims and billions of pounds stolen every year.

Every minute of 2022, thieves stole £2300 from bank and credit card accounts. They took a total of 1.2 billion from nearly 3 million people. In this ...

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The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet broke
FT News Briefing

Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul the international tax system will face a difficult passage through the US Congress as Republicans threaten to vote down a prospective deal, and millions of internet users lost access to major sites yesterday due to a configuration error at a Silico ...

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