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Networking giant Cisco confirms being hacked as a ransomware group publishes a partial list of files it claims to have exfiltrated from the tech giant. On the same day that the Yanluowang ransomware group published a partial list of…

On Thursday, August 11, the Latvian Parliament, Saeima, issued a statement in which Russian violence against civilians was recognized as terrorism and Russia as a country supporting terrorism. In the statement, Saeima called on the…

Personal mobile of PM Boris Johnson may have been infected by Pegasus. Personal details his staff in 10 Downing Street are compromised and are posted on a Russian social media site after suspected cyber hack. It comes as Foreign Office…

In an unprecedented turn of events, members of the billionaire Sackler family who control Purdue Pharma have agreed to pay as much as $6 billion in a controversial settlement with state governments for the family’s role in fueling the US…

For more than a decade, Lebanon’s central bank charged commercial banks in the country commissions when they bought government securities without making clear that the bulk of those commissions went to a company controlled by the brother of…

• Harvard economist Jason Furman said Russia's economy is 'unimportant' except for its gas resources, The New York Times reported.
• His comments come as the US claims that a Russian invasion of Ukrane is imminent and may take place on

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Will any scrutiny or sanctions against the state of Israel or its government members materialise for their complicity in these illegal spying activities? Fact I: No Pegasus license sale can take place without the Israeli government…

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and UAE were hit by a serious and unprecedented cyber-attack. The names of Saudi Intelligence officers as well as their ID, organization, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd names, their new and old numbers, date of birth,…

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on two Israeli hacker-for-hire companies—including the well-known spyware company NSO Group, the parent company of the notorious Pegasus spyware—saying their tools…

Facebook Inc. announced today that it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such technology. "I believe this is another…

Damning Covid-19 report by a cross-party committee of MPs says 'serious errors and delays' in pandemic response cost lives and lists catastrophic failures of preparation and planning in the UK government's handling of the covid-19 pandemic.

AP News - Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast. After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook…

India’s supreme court has ordered an inquiry by an independent committee into the question of whether the government used the Israeli Pegasus surveillance software for illegal spying. In making their decision, Indian Judges criticised…

By Khaled Fattal, Survivability News Publisher's Corner.

Today,  in an unprecedented turn of events, France has recalled its US ambassador.It appears that "America First" at any cost, never left the White House. This is despite Biden, a Democrat, replaced Trump, the Republican who won the job…

It is understandable if your enemies talk you down and say you are no longer a super power especially if your mighty superiority was soundly defeated by a militia with no air force and troops who march in flip flops. But, it is all together…

Some of the world's largest companies as well as some governments have been warned by Microsoft that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases.

The leaked British Foreign Office documents described in this investigation first surfaced in December 2020 but which got largely ignored by western media. Survivability News decided to bring it back to light today as Lebanon’s economic and…

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By Zhou Bo . Mr. Zhou was a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020 and is an expert on the Chinese Army’s strategic thinking on international security.  The speed and scope of the Taliban’s takeover in…

By Owei Lakemfa, former secretary general of African workers,  human rights activist, journalist and author.AFGHANISTAN is in chaos. There are videos of Afghans clinging to aircraft taking off and dropping to earth. The dominant media…

A new story about an Afghan officer who fought with US forces being rescued from Kabul with a daring mission by US forces was Kicked off by AP News a few hours ago today. Within minutes, the story started spreading like wild fires. It…

President Biden and the U.S. Administration must think Americans and people all over the world are stupid - why were millions of US Dollars, earned by American tax payers, allowed to fall in Taliban hands?

For decades, the American political class has intervened relentlessly and recklessly in countries whose people they hold in contempt. And once again they are being aided by America’s credulous mass media, which is uniformly blaming the…

• A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified "no-fly" records was exposed on the internet.
• The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it.
• Millions of people on

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It's was less than 48 hours ago when President Biden asked the Taliban to spare the U.S. Embassy in Kabul with threats to cut "Robust Diplomatic Engagement." The message made many wonder if an "understanding" had existed between the…

- Is there need for more proof of how morally bankrupt American political leaders on both sides are?  - What does it mean when the greatest empire on the planet has to ask the Taliban to spare its American Embassy during their upcoming…

Survivability News Exclusive. Global Cyber Security Leader, Accenture is hacked by Ransomware that maybe a decoy for sinister Geo-Poli-Cyber motivations. According to the claim message with which the ransom was requested “for some of the…

Over $600 Million Stolen in Biggest Ever Cryptocurrency Theft …

New Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has named a Western skeptic diplomat as foreign minister as he presented a cabinet dominated by hard-liners, state TV reported. Raisi replaced Hassan Rohani, a relative moderate, as president after an…

Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatol Hlaz says Belarus has told the United States to reduce its embassy staff in Minsk to five people by September 1, and revoked its consent to the appointment of Julie Fisher as the ambassador in response to…

The U.S. embassy in Kabul told Americans in Afghanistan to leave the country immediately in response to an increase in violence. This comes at the same time as Taliban fighters reportedly have captured their first provincial capital…

Chinese prosecutors say the messaging app does not comply with laws protecting children, in fresh crackdown on tech firms. Tencent on Tuesday announced new curbs on minors’ access to its flagship video game, Honor of Kings, after its…

August 4th, 2021, Newsweek's published a post titled "U.K. and Germany Don't Have Power to Fight China, State Media Says". Yesterday, on August 3rd, 2021, Survivability News published a post pertaining to a UK Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen…